HWCLOCK,LOCALTIME,UTC how to fix wrong time.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 15:11 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: 
> 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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My hardware clock is set to UTC. But in /etc/sysconfig/clock
all I find is a line defining the Local time zone "America/Chicago".
Nothing about UTC.

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