On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote: > Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows > on my machine.
No, of course not. It is the _easiest_ fix. It is becoming aparent that we can do a much better fix in glibc, but I need to investigate more. And there is always the workaround of setting TZ in /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh for the meanwhile. > My linux configuration is relatively simple with everything on a single > partition. Time zone is set properly, is not a symbolic link and is in the > same filesystem as root. So it should just work. Make sure /etc/default/rcS has UTC=no in it, and that TZ is not set anywhere in the /etc/init.d/hwclock* scripts. Look at what the system says while booting up, it will output the system time twice (one for hwclockfirst.sh, the other for hwclock.sh). They must make sense (also pay attention to the timezone it reports). > I've noticed that when I have the system set for local time it reports a time > that is really GMT. "date -u" will tell you what the system thinks is the UTC time. If the output is different from plain "date", then it certainly thinks it is in some timezone. > Everything worked fine until the last time I updated (debian/testing). The current bugs in util-linux should not matter much if /usr is in the same partition as /, so we will need a bit more info to help you. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
