Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <[email protected]>
---
 rc.sysinit |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
index e948074..c09dad2 100755
--- a/rc.sysinit
+++ b/rc.sysinit
@@ -54,8 +54,14 @@ if [ -n "$HWCLOCK_PARAMS" ]; then
                /bin/ln -s /dev/rtc0 /dev/rtc
        fi
 
-       # Set clock early to fix some bugs with filesystem checks
-       # Clock is set again later to match rc.conf
+       # Do a clock set here for a few reasons:
+       # 1. Make creation time on udev nodes sane (FS#8665)
+       # 2. Filesystem checks can depend on system time
+       # 3. This will set the clock, if using non-UTC, off the last known
+       #    configured timezone. Any new timezone put in rc.conf is copied 
over at
+       #    a later time.
+       # This does *NOT* take into account a time adjustment file as /var may 
not be
+       # mounted yet. A second set occurs later to match rc.conf.
        if [ -f /etc/localtime ]; then
                /sbin/hwclock $HWCLOCK_PARAMS --noadjfile
        fi
@@ -283,8 +289,14 @@ fi
 
 clock_pid=""
 if [ -n "$HWCLOCK_PARAMS" ]; then
+       # This time, we set the clock for real. Use the adjustment file now that
+       # /var will definitely be available, and then set the system clock once
+       # the hardware clock has been adjusted accordingly. The backgrounding 
magic
+       # is due to the fact that the second call to hwclock will almost always
+       # take ~1 second because of the clock granularity, and we might as well
+       # stay busy.
        (
-       /sbin/hwclock --adjust #Adjust for system drift
+       /sbin/hwclock --adjust
        /sbin/hwclock $HWCLOCK_PARAMS
        ) &
        clock_pid=$!
-- 
1.6.5.5

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