Hi!
Since a recent update to all my computers at home (one laptop and two
desktops, all running Debian/testing among other OSes) some time last
weekend, I am having trouble with clock settings (I didn't directly
change anything, or least nothing that I was aware of consciously
doing). On each boot, the system clock always gets initialized as if
the hwclock was set to UTC, although all configuration files I can
think of tell it should be in local time. On one desktop, I can (and
did) change the hwclock to UTC, and it solves the problem, of course,
but the other two computers are dual boot with M$ Tax Windoze XP
(laptop) and Windoze 2000 (the other desktop). If I set the hwclock to
UTC in order to avoid trouble with the file system check on startup
(it complains the date on the filesystem is in the future), Windoze
shows a time with an extra 5 hours (my local time is Eastern/Canada)
(at least for Windoze 2000, I didn't try with XP yet).
Here is the content of /etc/default/rcS:
#
# Defaults for the boot scripts in /etc/rcS.d
#
# Time files in /tmp are kept in days.
TMPTIME=0
# Set to yes if you want sulogin to be spawned on bootup
SULOGIN=no
# Set to no if you want to be able to login over telnet/rlogin
# before system startup is complete (as soon as inetd is started)
DELAYLOGIN=yes
# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if
not.
UTC=no
# Set VERBOSE to "no" if you would like a more quiet bootup.
VERBOSE=yes
# Set EDITMOTD to "no" if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted
automatically
EDITMOTD=yes
# Set FSCKFIX to "yes" if you want to add "-y" to the fsck at startup.
FSCKFIX=no
As I mentioned, if I change UTC=no to UTC=yes, everything goes well,
except for the extra hours in Windoze. I searched a lot on google, and
I didn't find any good solution or explanation. I am not so familiar
with the details time setting, so I come here to ask for help. Was
there something wrong with my configuration prior to upgrading that
showed up after? I don't really remember all the questions the
installer asked me about time settings when I installed the systems
(the most recent installation is last summer on the laptop, the other
two about two years ago), and what I answered, but up till now, I
never had any trouble with time.
Thanks for any help.