On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and honor > the > TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use > ntpdate > to keep the time in synch. > > Curently I have the correct timezone in /etc/timezone, and the correct offset > from > the hardware clock is being applied, but I can't seem to get my script that > runs > ntpdate to set the hardware clock to UTC. It persists in setting it to the > local > time, so my displayed time, after applying the offset, is incorect.
Not sure, but are you applying that offset yourself? If so, are you aware that "hwclock --show" always shows the *local* time? Anyhow, what's the content of /etc/adjtime? On my machine it has a line saying: UTC -- groetjes, carel
