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Re: system time - thank you



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.

-- 
Chris.
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