Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-06-17 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 05/31/2011 07:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Tom Horsley writes: > >> On Tue, 31 May 2011 16:26:21 -0400 >> Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> >> > Before I begin a long and painful adventure in pulling apart with >> what's >> > happening with systemd/initscripts, anyone has any clues where I >> should

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 17:00 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > the laptop's been on the mains power all the time, and wouldn't be > drawing the CMOS battery at all. Depends on the circuit design. It's quite possible for part, or all, of the BIOS to depend entirely on a battery. -- [tim@localhost

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Roger
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 16:26 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > On my laptop, it seems that at every boot the clock is offseted by my > timezone. > > Date/Time properties shows "System clock uses UTC" unchecked. This is a dual- > boot with WinXP, so I must keep the bios clock on local time. Yet, it

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: On Tue, 31 May 2011 16:26:21 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Before I begin a long and painful adventure in pulling apart with what's > happening with systemd/initscripts, anyone has any clues where I should look? Check /etc/adjtime, it should say LOCAL, not UTC. You can

F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Andre Robatino
Sam Varshavchik courier-mta.com> writes: > On my laptop, it seems that at every boot the clock is offseted by my > timezone. > > Date/Time properties shows "System clock uses UTC" unchecked. This is a dual- > boot with WinXP, so I must keep the bios clock on local time. Yet, it seems > that

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 31 May 2011 16:26:21 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Before I begin a long and painful adventure in pulling apart with what's > happening with systemd/initscripts, anyone has any clues where I should look? Check /etc/adjtime, it should say LOCAL, not UTC. You can also run hwclock --local

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/31/2011 02:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > It would be rather strange if a low cmos battery would result in the > hardware clock being slow exactly by exactly four hours, It would indeed, which is why I pointed out that it's probably not an issue here. I would like to point out, however,

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joe Zeff writes: On 05/31/2011 01:26 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Before I begin a long and painful adventure in pulling apart with what's > happening with systemd/initscripts, anyone has any clues where I should > look? The next few times you boot, go into your BIOS and make sure the time's ri

Re: F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/31/2011 01:26 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Before I begin a long and painful adventure in pulling apart with what's > happening with systemd/initscripts, anyone has any clues where I should > look? The next few times you boot, go into your BIOS and make sure the time's right there. And, if

F15 doesn't believe my hardware clock uses local time

2011-05-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
On my laptop, it seems that at every boot the clock is offseted by my timezone. Date/Time properties shows "System clock uses UTC" unchecked. This is a dual- boot with WinXP, so I must keep the bios clock on local time. Yet, it seems that when I boot the bios clock is read as UTC nevertheles