Re: system time - thank you

daniele pendenza wrote: > >If the adjtime file doesn't exist, the default is local time. > > and why not utc ? > ;) I have no idea. You would need to ask the hwclock author. I was simply quoting the documentation. Using UTC as a default would make sense to me. (shrug) I always use UTC for th

Re: system time - thank you

If the adjtime file doesn't exist, the default is local time. and why not utc ? ;) daniele Bob Proulx wrote: daniele pendenza wrote: By the way a question arises: why the default in (*) is localtime ... It seems that when I first wrote the post the system '/etc/default/rcS' has been

Re: system time - thank you

daniele pendenza wrote: > By the way a question arises: why the default in (*) is localtime ... > It seems that when I first wrote the post the system '/etc/default/rcS' > has been configured with 'UTC=yes' ... mmm ... odd, isnt it ? ;) The default is whatever was last used to set the clock.

Re: system time - thank you

Hi ! and Thank you Bob for the kind answer. It was my mistake not to read the documentation in depth. So your suggestion was a great help. Now I understand the results of hwclock, Just to make it clear to everyone interested - also in the future : 1 - 'hwclock --show' : reads by its own th