https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677411 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677411#c2 Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|fcrozat@novell.com | --- Comment #2 from Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@novell.com> 2011-04-20 13:46:19 UTC --- we already had the discussion about using UTC BIOS clock which is a better solution, I agree with that, but for now, localtime is still the default in SUSE installer (at least in 11.4 gnome live installer), so we need this option to work until we "kill it". /etc/localtime is up to date (hardlink to Europe/Paris tz file), same for /etc/adjtime (correctly stating LOCAL) To reproduce the issue : - install 11.4 (for instance with live-gnome image) with clock set to local (it is by default) - check on the install system that clock is ok (I used Europe/Paris as timezone, ie GMT+2 at the moment) - install systemd-sysvinit - reboot - check the clock in the BIOS (before booting openSUSE with systemd enabled) : it is still tracking local time. - systemd-fsck will complain the fs was last unmounted in the future - clock is set 2 hours in the past - systemctl status hwclock-load.service is returning : Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hwclock-load.service Active: active (exited) since Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:30:33 +0200 ; 5min ago Process: 314 ExecStart=/sbin/hwclock --systz (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/hwclock-load.service - if you run hwclock at this time, it is still displaying the "right" local time, because BIOS clock hasn't been synced yet to system clock (it is done at shutdown) - if I re-run hwclock --systz, clock goes again 2h in the past running hwclock --systz is expecting system clock to get set to GMT clock by kernel and then adjustment is made to "fix" the timezone (since kernel doesn't have any timezone info at startup). I'm starting to wonder if hwclock isn't buggy.. see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672194 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.