HWCLOCK,LOCALTIME,UTC how to fix wrong time.

[Rick Stevens]

On 04/04/2012 02:47 PM, luis redondo wrote:
> I got that Fedora16 and OpenSUSE present wrong system time because they
> are the only systems I run that have WRONG UTC.
> For example: My correct system time is 21:20:04 and when I do on
> Fedora(OpenSUSE) :
> hwclock ; date ; date --utc I got
>
> 8:20:04 PM WEST
> 20:20:04 WEST 2012
> 19:20:04 UTC 2012
>
> Then UTC is 2 hours before my right daylight savings time AND IT SHOULD
> BE ONLY 1 HOUR.
> On Ubuntu,Debian which present right system hour with daylight savings
> the UTC is 1 HOUR BEFORE
> 20:20:04 UTC 2012(which is correct with the real world).

The numbers look right for the WEST time zone (western Europe savings 
time), which is defined as "+0100".

"hwclock" always reports in local time, regardless if your hardware
clock is set to UTC or not (read the man page if you don't believe me).
You need to look at /etc/sysconfig/clock to see how your hardware clock
is set. If "UTC" is "true", then your hardware clock is using UTC.
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