Re: system time - thank you

[daniele pendenza <danielependenza@yahoo.fr>]

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 understand 
> > if the RTC is in UTC or LOCALTIME than it shows, after a conversion if
> >     
>                                     ^^^^
> 			Is that meant to be then?
> 			
>   
> > necessary, the time in localtime.
> >
> > 2 - ' hwclock --show --utc' : _I_ explicitly_ say - no matter if this is 
> > the truth or not - to hwclock  that the RTC is in UTC, than it shows t
> >     
>                                                          ^^^^
> 					Is that meant to be then?	 
> he 
>   
> > time got from the hardware, after a conversion.
> >
> > 3 - 'hwclock --show --localtime' : _I explicitly_ say - no matter if 
> > this is the truth or not - to hwclock  that the RTC is in LOCALTIME, 
> > than it shows the time got from the hardware,without a conversion.
> >     
>   ^^^^
>   Is that meant to be then?
>
> Sorry to be picky, but it all seems rather confusing.
>
>   
Hi Chris,

To be honest I became quite sad reading this answer. I just consider 
your message a way to roughly underline and to impolitely show to the 
community my mistake in english writing thAn being of help in 
understanding the hwclock behavior. I don't think that phrase - even 
with a thAn replacing thEn - can lead to misunderstanding because - if I 
am not wrong - there is nothing to compare inside the phrase. And, also, 
if some misunderstanding could arise some experiments along with reading 
of the man page show you what I meant - _if one's willing is to 
understand_.
Nonetheless, I appreciate the fact that my grammar's error came up : one 
must learn from his errors.

In case anyone else has been confused or driven to a wrong way by my 
mistake, pardonnez moi please !

As it sometimes happens - and this is the case - only the bad things are 
noticed not the good ;)

cheers

d