Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 19:24:04 +0100, andy wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[...]
>> As root
>>
>> tzconfig
>>
>> Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other time zones)
>>
>> hwclock --systohc
>> Set the BIOS clock to UTC
>>
>> In KDE, set the clock to use local time zone and point that at
>> Europe/London
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks Andy
>
> I sudo tzconfig and adjusted it specifically to Europe/London then entered
> sudo hwclock --systohc and after a pause got a message back "select() to
> /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
> I rebooted the machine, and saw the same message in the closing messages
> when it reached the point about saving system time. Checked in the BIOS,
> which is giving the correct time. Loaded KDE and went to configure the
> clock and it still reports TZ as Guernsey. I ran tzconfig again and this
> time it reported /Europe/London. Unfortunately, the clock is still 1 hour
> ahead, despite this.
Try
hwclock --directisa --systohc
instead. If that gets rid of the "select() to /dev/rtc ..." error
message then you can add the line
HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa"
to /etc/default/rcS and the time should stay correct across reboots.
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