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

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From: Henrik Storner
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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In <36187FCD.774B379C@ozemail.com.au> 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?

You can't use "hwclock --utc" when your hardware-clock is set for local time.

From 'man hwclock':

       --utc  Indicates that the Hardware Clock is kept in Universal Coordinated Time.
              It  is  your choice whether to keep your clock in UTC or local time, but
              nothing in the clock tells which you've chosen.  So this option  is  how
              you give that information to hwclock.

       If  you  don't  specify  --utc when you should, or vice versa, both setting and
       querying of the Hardware Clock will be messed up.

-- 
Henrik Storner  |  "testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, 
                |   if it boots up it is perfect."
                |                                    Linus Torvalds

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From: storner@image.dk (Henrik Storner)
Subject: Re: A whacky DATE bug in Linux - Problem gets crazier!
Date: 1998/10/05
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