Re: ntpdate, /etc/timezone et all.

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

On Sun Mar 18 16:11:55 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote...
>
>On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 03:07:55PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>> On Sun Mar 18 12:40:10 2001 Carel Fellinger wrote...
>> >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 no time expert, just thinking that maybe al is swell afterall.
>So could you post the outcome of the following commands?
>
>   # date && hwclock --show

Script started on Mon Mar 19 01:18:10 2001
yogi:~# date
Mon Mar 19 01:18:13 EST 2001
yogi:~# hwclock --show
Mon Mar 19 01:18:21 2001  -0.495009 seconds
yogi:~# echo $TZ

yogi:~# cat /etc/timezone
US/Eastern
yogi:~# 
Script done on Mon Mar 19 01:18:41 2001

>
>Both should show the same time. You see hwclock doesn't show utc time,
>but local time (sorry if this was clear to you, but I somehow have the
>feeling that you are still doing some calculation yourself. Bytheway,
>the times you mention above don't make sense to me, I thought US/Eastern
>was a whole number of hours from utc, the minutes should stay the same)
>
>The other thing that could interfere is if you've set the TZ environment
>variable.

	OK, I'm totaly confused. There are 3 things involved here, as I see it. The
	hardware clock, which should be set to UTC. The kernels view of time, which
	should be the same as the hardware clock modified by the value of
	/etc/timezone, and the "user" view of time which should be UTC modifiedby
	whatever they have set TZ to, or if they have not set it, modified by what's in
	/etc/timezone.

	Have I got that correct?

	If so why does my machine think it's 1 oclock tomorow morning? It's really
	about 18:30 EST.

	Please explain what I'm looking at wrong here.

	Thanks for the help.

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