On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:25:11 +0200
daniele pendenza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> I also found on the net a wiki that u can check if your problem is
>
> >My Acer Aspire with etch responds to
> >all hwclock queries with this:
>
> >select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
>
>
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:
Just to make it clear to everyone interested - also in the future :
1 - 'hwclock --show' : reads by its own the content of '/etc/adjtime'
(if this file does not exist the dafault(*) is localtime) to u
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:
> Just to make it clear to everyone interested - also in the future :
>
> 1 - 'hwclock --show' : reads by its own the content of '/etc/adjtime'
> (if this file does not exist the dafault(*) is localtime) to understand
> if the R
Richard Lyons wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:
[...]
Just to make it clear to everyone interested - also in the future :
1 - 'hwclock --show' : reads by its own the content of '/etc/adjtime'
(if this file does not exist the dafault(*) is localtime)
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:
[...]
> Just to make it clear to everyone interested - also in the future :
>
> 1 - 'hwclock --show' : reads by its own the content of '/etc/adjtime'
> (if this file does not exist the dafault(*) is localtime) to understand
> if
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
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
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.
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
daniele pendenza wrote:
> So I think this is the general picture :
> 1 - when the system starts the value of the system time is defined
> taking into account the value of the RTC time the value of the UTC
> constant retrived at startup and the timezone information.
> 2 - when the system is up an
Thank you to all of you for your answers.
I found that by default the DEbian installer set yes as the value of the
constant UTC - specified in the file /etc/default/rcS -. I switched it
to NO and then back to YES : now the date command shows me the correct time.
So I think this is the general
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