Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote...
>
>On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:57:37AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>> I am trying to get my machine to have the harware clock set to UTC, and honor the
>> TZ environment variable for displaying the correct local time. I will use ntpdate
>> to keep the time in synch.
>> 
>> Curently I have the correct timezone in /etc/timezone, and the correct offset from
>> the hardware clock is being applied, but I can't seem to get my script that runs
>> ntpdate to set the hardware clock to UTC. It persists in setting it to the local
>> time, so my displayed time, after applying the offset, is incorect.
>
>Not sure, but are you applying that offset yourself?  If so, are you
>aware that "hwclock --show" always shows the *local* time?  Anyhow,
>what's the content of /etc/adjtime? On my machine it has a line saying:
>

	/etc/adjtime does have a line whose contents are UTC. And /etc/timezone 
	has US/Eastern in it. Acording to my reconicking UTC ast I write this should be
	Sun Mar 18 20:05:59 GMT 2001, that's Sun Mar 18 15:06:27 EST 2001, in the US's
	Eastern time zone. hwclock --show shows 22:59 . 

	I'm confused, where am I going wrong?



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