Re: System clock malfunction
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > You mean the BIOS shows the correct *local* time? In case you don't run
> > Windows on the same machine you should set it to UTC and let Debian
> > handle the time difference. Just make sure you have the right time zone
> > by running 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'. Otherwise you should tell it that
> > your clock is set to local time (via /etc/default/rcS).
>
> Oh, THAT simple?! Thanks Andrei and Michael. I do have 'UTC=yes' in
> /etc/default/rcS while my BIOS shows local time (IST). I don't run any
> other system on this laptop so decided to change the BIOS time (after
> reading http://bugs.debian.org/346342).
It gets better. If your RTC is in UTC, you can remove the initscript calls
for hwclock in the S runlevel, and get a marginally faster boot, too.
Recent kernels know how to read a RTC in UTC and set the initial system time
all by itself (although you may want to test for it first: look for this in
/var/log/dmesg: "setting system clock to").
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