On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Nick Chalk wrote:
> Gordon Scott <gordon@???> wrote:
> > Even that alone didn't fix it .. I also had to
> > do some messing about with hwclock's --systohc
> > and --hctosys options to get everything
> > unanimously to agree
> 
> My approach - on all systems - is:
> 
>    - Set correct timezone
>    - Set correct local time and date with "date"
>    - Re-program the RTC with
>         hwclock --systohc --utc
>    - Set up NTP.
>    - Instruct system to save system time to RTC on
>      shutdown.
That's pretty much what I ended up doing. Timezone was OK, but It seems 
that setting the hardware clock alone using --set was not sufficient, 
presumably something somewhere was also doing that --systohc on my 
bahalf without asking. With hwclock not reporting the hw-clock's real 
time, I was fooled into thinking the problem was somewhere else than it 
was.
Mow if it had just installed with whclock --utc in the first place....
Ho Hum. Aren't computers sometimes an amazing waste of human resource.
G
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