[ale] clock misset on boot

[James P. Kinney III]

It gets them from /etc/sysconfig/clock! Mine is below:

ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=true
ARC=false

The rc.sysinit script loads values from /etc/sysconfig/clock, then looks
for old style format as $CLOCKMODE values. Since it finds to CLOCKMODE
variable, it uses the values for UTC and ARC from clock. 

You want UTC. It used to be called GMT. You also need a ZONE variable to
set the display offset correctly. It will keep time in UTC and translate
for display to local time. That avoids having to explicitly handle stuff
like Daylight Savings Time (can we PLEASE retire that?!).

Try adding my ZONE variable and reboot. 

It will probably come up OK. Dual boots are a different problem.
Win9x/NT use local time in bios. Win2k/XP can handle UTC (as they
should). There may be a win98 patch that fixed this. Not sure though.

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 17:00, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Trivial problem, but it still bugs me! :)
> 
> When I boot Linux the boot process resets the box to GMT/UTC and
> I must add four hours to the clock. It doesn't mess with the
> date or the minutes/seconds, just the hour.
> 
> The only clue I can find is this line from the boot log:
> 
> Aug 21 15:38:38 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting clock  (localtime): Wed Aug 21 
> 15:38:28 UTC 2002 succeeded 
> 
> looking at rc.sysinit I see the script contains these lines:
> 
> ------------------------- <begin copy> ---------------------------
> # Set the system clock.
> ARC=0
> SRM=0
> UTC=0
> 
> 
> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
>    . /etc/sysconfig/clock
> 
> 
>    # convert old style clock config to new values
>    if [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "GMT" ]; then
>       UTC=true
>    elif [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "ARC" ]; then
>       ARC=true
>    fi
> fi
> 
> ----------------------- <end copy> ------------------------------
> 
> I _think_ my question is where does re.sysinit find the variable
> CLOCKMODE?  Given the results I believe that variable is set to
> GMT rather than EDT.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> 
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