hwclock broken?

[Forest Wilkinson]

P.S.

This bug causes my system (a Dell Dimension 8400) to assume my hardware 
clock is set to UTC (GMT), even though it is not.  My time zone is set 
correctly and /etc/sysconfig/clock contains UTC=false.  The result is that 
rebooting sets my linux clock 7 or 8 hours earlier than it should be.  The 
init script workaround below gets rid of the time shift problem.

Forest Wilkinson wrote:
> I have the same problem, as do others, according to these bug reports:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144894
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145128
> 
> When running hwclock manually, you can use the --directisa option.
> 
> For the sake of startup and shutdown scripts, you can work around the 
> problem by adding this line to /etc/sysconfig/clock:
> 
> CLOCKFLAGS=--directisa