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Re: A whacky DATE bug in Linux - Problem gets crazier!

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From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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Paul Taylor <birder@ozemail.com.au> writes:

|> Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
|> > [snip]
|> > What do I have here? I have my BIOS on local time (which is Central European
|> > Summer Time). During installation of Linux (SuSE 5.3, 2.0.35) I told the system
|> > that I am in TZ Berlin/Europe and that my BIOS is showing local time.
|> > 
|> > Now with [date] I get the local time.
|> > With [date -u] I get UTC time which is 2 hours behind.
|> > With [hwclock --show] I get local time.
|> > With [hwclock --utc --show] I get UTC time which is... WHAT NOW?
|> > 
|> > As you can see above UTC is with date 2 hours behind and with hwclock 2 hours
|> > ahead.
|> 
|> "hwclock --utc" is incorrect.  My timezone is UTC+10; "date", "date -u" and
|> "hwclock" show the expected times, but "hwclock --utc" shows the time as
|> 10 hours ahead of local instead of 10 hours behind.  Presumably the program
|> was written by someone in the USA who thought that UTC is always ahead of
|> local time.

No, you are misunderstanding the meaning of --utc for hwclock.  It tells
hwclock to assume that the RTC is running in UTC, which obviously is not
the case for you.  It does *not* mean to display the RTC time in UTC.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: A whacky DATE bug in Linux - Problem gets crazier!
Date: 1998/10/05
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