Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3120 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 02.12.01 at 22:32, wolfi wrote:


> Did you find a solution for this?
> I have got exactly the same problem on one of my boxen.
> In /etc/init.d/boot.clock it says -> see below.
>
> This one seems to be important:
> /sbin/hwclock --hctosys $HWCLOCK
> which means, that on boot system time is adjusted to BIOS time. But in
> fact, the opposite happens.

It sets system clock from CMOS (BIOS) time. Look the manual page:

  --hctosys
       Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock.

       Also set the kernel's timezone value to the local timezone as
indicated by the TZ environment variable and/or /usr/share/zoneinfo, as
tzset(3)  would interpret them.  The obsolete tz_dsttime field of the
kernel's timezone value is set to DST_NONE. (For details on what this
field used to mean, see settimeofday(2).)

      This is a good option to use in one of the system startup scripts.


> The BIOS time gets adjusted to system time, and then it's wrong. Exactly
> as described in Eric's first email.
>
> ANY IDEAS ???!?!?

Timezones, adjtime, set up bios time (UTC) from the bios itself...

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson