Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question > when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want > to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks > in.
Look in /etc/init.d/boot. There should be a line setting the variable GMT which is later used in a call to clock. Just set that variable to "-u" instead of "". Be certain to do a 'clock -u -w' before you shut your system down! (immediately after you make this change to /etc/init.d/boot, perhaps?) > Also, what tool syncs the hardware clock to the system time? I set my > system time using netdate, in my ip-up and would like to set my HW clock > to that and keep it synced. Using clock -w works, but is a pain. > I must look at adjtimex again, rather than just using netdate. clock -w is a pain? (and, if your hardware clock is now in universal time, you should use "clock -u -w") Why can't you just put a "clock -u -w" statement in your ip-up script right after the call to netdate? Alternatively, I suppose that you could synchronize your hardware clock to your software clock by adding a "clock -u -w" statement to /etc/init.d/halt, preferably somewhere near the beginning. That way, your hardware clock would be written each time your machine rebooted or was shut down - since the value in the hardware clock is usually used only at boot time, this would seem to be enough. I'd still put the clock statement in the ip-up script too, though, to keep the hardware clock synched in case of unexpected power outages. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
