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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:26:33PM +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> Hey, I've found that when my computer boots, the clock starts off being 
> wrong, it 
> thinks that local time is GMT. However, the hwclock command gets it right:
> $ sudo hwclock --show
> Thu Oct 30 19:24:57 2003  -0.224571 seconds

You may want to check /etc/sysconfig/hwclock and set UTC correctly. If
your hardware clock stores the localtime directly (needed for some
broken OS), set UTC=no and it should set the time correctly.

> Whats the best way of dealing with this?
> (actually, a thought...it may be the kernel is expecting the hw clock in 
> UTC, and 
> the time that gets set is in fact 11 hours ahead not 13 behind, I haven't 
> looked 
> into that yet)
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