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From: T o n g on 14 Jul 2010 21:10 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:44:49 +0000, T o n g wrote: > $ date; hwclock --show > Wed Jul 14 20:33:58 EDT 2010 > Wed 14 Jul 2010 08:33:58 PM EDT -0.953730 seconds > > Seems to me my hardware clock is set to local time here instead. Nope, it get correctly interpreted by the system. Thanks to Dave's solution, problem solved now. Reposting below: The bug report contains the following work-around, as root run these commands: hwclock --systohc --utc hwclock --hctosys --utc Thanks everyone who replied. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i1lmkl$ep6$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: H.S. on 15 Jul 2010 14:50 On 14/07/10 09:01 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:44:49 +0000, T o n g wrote: > Thanks to Dave's solution, problem solved now. Reposting below: > > The bug report contains the following work-around, as root run these > commands: > > hwclock --systohc --utc > hwclock --hctosys --utc > > Thanks everyone who replied. > Just wanted to report how it is going with my machine with these steps as well. I gave the above two commands and rebooted. BIOS clock showed UTC. Booting into Windows 7 (which is set to take BIOS time as UTC time by the registry change I mentioned in an earlier post) and in Fedora 7 shows the right time. Rebooted, confirm BIOS was still on UTC and logged in to Debian. The time was still correctly displayed as EDT. $ grep -i utc /etc/default/rcS UTC=yes ~/tmp$ date Thu Jul 15 14:40:18 EDT 2010 ~/tmp$ date --utc Thu Jul 15 18:40:22 UTC 2010 So, er, I am still not sure how to understand this: "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. If you happened to install your system to use local time, just change the variable to yes to start using UTC." --- http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i1nkpd$loo$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Andrei Popescu on 15 Jul 2010 15:40 On Jo, 15 iul 10, 14:41:49, H.S. wrote: > > So, er, I am still not sure how to understand this: > "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file > /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. If you happened to > install your system to use local time, just change the variable to yes > to start using UTC." --- > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html Looks like it's missing a "not", but that document is obsolete anyway. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: H.S. on 15 Jul 2010 15:40 On 15/07/10 03:12 PM, John Hasler wrote: > H.S. writes: >> So, er, I am still not sure how to understand this: >> "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file >> /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. If you happened to >> install your system to use local time, just change the variable to yes >> to start using UTC." --- >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html > > It's an error. man rcS I see. From the man page: "UTC .... If this option is set to no then the system clock is assumed to be set to local time. If the option is set to yes then the system clock is assumed to be set to something approximating Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). (POSIX systems keep a variant of UTC, without leap seconds.)" Thanks for pointing that out. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i1nnvj$2vn$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: John Hasler on 15 Jul 2010 15:40
H.S. writes: > So, er, I am still not sure how to understand this: > "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file > /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. If you happened to > install your system to use local time, just change the variable to yes > to start using UTC." --- > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html It's an error. man rcS -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vd8gy2xb.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org |