Re: 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.
>  -
>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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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