Unable to keep HWCLOCK, localtime, UTC along several OSs and partitions.

[jdow]

On 2012/04/03 10:48, luis redondo wrote:
> I have several operative systems on disk partitions.With the hour change to
> European Summertime days ago
> Fedora16 and OpenSUSE are 1 hour less than the right time,the other OSs
> (Ubuntus,Debian,Solaris etc. are OK).
>
> On Fedora16(and OpenSUSE) when I do in Terminal: hwclock ; date ; date --utc I get:
>
> 8:53:42 PM WEST
> 20:53:41 WEST 2012
> 19:53:41 WEST 2012
>
> On Ubuntu(which presents the time OK) I get:
>
> sudo hwclock ; date ; date --utc
> Tue 03 Apr 2012 05:42:26 PM WEST -0.032786 seconds
> Tue Apr 3 18:42:25 WEST 2012
> Tue Apr 3 17:42:25 UTC 2012
>
> Here the hardware clock equals UTC and on Fedora and OpenSUSE NOT.
> More,when I fix the time on OpenSUSE and Fedora the other operative systems
> time become WRONG.
>
> How can I fix this?

'ix operating systems seem to be sane enough that the hardware clock can be
set to either UTC or local time. For earlier releases, at least, than today's
18, you had a tick mark on the "Time Zone" tab of "Date & Time Properties"
panel. It hides near the lower left corner.

{^_^}