[Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:21:48PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 28 April 2015 at 13:40, Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > > Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local
> > > > timezone,
> > > No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short:
> > > - the information about the timezone used is not stored in RTC,
> > >   so all users of RTC need to be configured to use the same timezone
> > >   externally
> >
> > It surprises me that we see these issues even with UEFI, which seems to
> > include support for timezone and DST information [1]. I can confirm this
> > myself, I have UEFI with Fedora 21 and Win7 at home, and I noticed that
> > there seems to be a fsck running on every Fedora boot. I haven't had time
> > to debug it properly yet, but it doesn't seem to work properly out of the
> > box. Moreover, if I look into `journalctl -b`, I see time shifted during
> > the boot process (which kind of messes up the history whenever I search in
> > it). I haven't reported any bug yet, but there's certainly something not
> > working out of the box there.
> >
> >
> This is the bug that started this thread:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201978
This not the right bug.

The problem is a combination of two bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202024 is about fsck.ext4
running full check when the date was off by less then 24h. I is now
changed to only print a warning. Eric Sandeen mentioned this commit
in the other part of the thread, and made an update with that patch
which is now in updates-testing.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201979 is about systemd
being stupid and rerunning root fsck, which sometimes triggered the
first issue. I just posted a patch upstream:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/031445.html

Hopefully those bugs will be closed soon. It doesn't change the fact that
RTC-in-localtime is wrong in general, but at least this aspect will be fixed.

Zbyszek