Re: UTC or localtime

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Thanks a lot for your replies, H.S. and Dave. 

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:44:30 -0400, H.S. wrote:

> "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file
> /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. . .

"Setting UTC to no to use UTC"? This is so confusing that I have to look 
for its definition (man 5 rcS) to find out why. But having done that, I'm 
more confused, by my Linux box this time:

>From the man page:

,-----
| The UTC is used to govern how the hardware real time clock is
| interpreted when it is read (e.g., at boot time, for the purpose
| of setting the system clock) and when it is written (e.g., at
| shutdown).  If this option is set to no then the system clock is
| assumed to be set to local time.
`-----

Mine is UTC=yes:

$ grep UTC /etc/default/rcS
UTC=yes

So it should imply that my hardware real time clock is set to UTC. 
However, 

$ date; hwclock --show
Wed Jul 14 20:33:58 EDT 2010
Wed 14 Jul 2010 08:33:58 PM EDT  -0.953730 seconds

Seems to me my hardware clock is set to local time here instead. 

Any comment? 

Thanks

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