Re: 2.6.37 and other things.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:34, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Finn Thain dixit:
>> >> > Doesn?t the kernel set the clock now, before that?
>> >>
>> >> Yes,
>> >
>> >Well, this won't work correctly unless your RTC is in UTC, and MacOS
>> >uses localtime not UTC.
>>
>> Sucks?
>
> I don't see the problem with localtime?
>
> It doesn't matter what the clock says if root is read-only.
>
>>
>> This may be the famous hwclock vs. e2fsprogs issue, too. I?ve lost track
>> of the ?official? solution, though? I just keep both RTC and wallclock
>> in UTC instead ?
>
> What issue? Why not just run hwclock before filesystem checks?
Isn't the check on the rootfs done _before_ hwclock runs?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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