On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote...
>
>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:
>
/etc/adjtime does have a line whose contents are UTC. And /etc/timezone
has US/Eastern in it. Acording to my reconicking UTC ast I write this
should be
Sun Mar 18 20:05:59 GMT 2001, that's Sun Mar 18 15:06:27 EST 2001, in
the US's
Eastern time zone. hwclock --show shows 22:59 .
I'm confused, where am I going wrong?
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