Re: time zone and UTC issue

["J. B" <bakshi12@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 09:47:44 +0000
Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:10:06PM +0530, J. B wrote:
> > I have checked my /etc/adjtime and found
> > 
> > [.....]
> > -0.408399 1354206971 0.000000
> > 1354206971
> > UTC
> > [......]
> > 
> > So my system is following the UTC :-)
> > And also set the H/W clock to UTC with "hwclock --utc --systohc"
> 
> This all looks good.
>  
> > still my H/W clock shows local timezone !!!
> 
> How are you looking at the hardware clock?  Note that
> "hwclock --show" will always show the clock in local time,
> irrespective of whether it is UTC or LOCAL in the hardware
> clock itself.
> 
> # hwclock --show      
> Mon 03 Dec 2012 10:45:33 CET  -0.903079 seconds
> # TZ=UTC hwclock --show
> Mon 03 Dec 2012 09:45:40 UTC  -0.988834 seconds
> 
> > How can I keep the H/W to UTC then and how can I apply different
> > timezone to different login user ? say someone use german and another different
> > login user use uk timezone. dpkg-reconfigure sure change the H/W timezone to UTC, but
> > also changes local.
> 
> This bit was answered very well by Bob.
> 


Thanks to you and Bob