http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538357
User werner@novell.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538357#c21
--- Comment #21 from Dr. Werner Fink 2009-10-07 02:32:41 MDT ---
If CMOS clock is running in localtime than you're right. In this case
the CMOS clock should be not touched. Beside this normally the Linux
kernel assumes that CMOS is running in UTC. That is that during boot
the kernel set to the system time to UTC (and the glibc is using
/etc/localtime to caluate the correct offset for displaying the system
time in the local time frame). Now with the help of the binary warpclock
in the initrd the kernel will be informed that the CMOS is *not* running
in UTC but in local time together with the offset to UTC. Then the
kernel its self correct the system time to the UTC time. This is done
*before* the root file system is mounted (to avoid a root file system
mounted in the future for systems right of the meridian of the
international dateline).
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