On Sunday 03 July 2011 11:37, Klaus Brinkmann wrote:
> Hello Denys
>
> > What in current text makes it unclear?
>
> > -u Hardware clock is in UTC
> > -l Hardware clock is in local time
>
> As I described in the linked forum-thread
> (http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~bbrink/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16&p=18#p18):
>
> The "is in" in the "--help"-output can be interpreted as "is output in"
> and not as it's ment to be interpreted "is kept/stored in". Especially
> because the output of "hwclock -ru" or "hwclock -rl" does not clearly
> state which timezone the time is shown in. This leads to a different
> expected result if you compare it to the "date"-output. Please follow
> the above link for the example.
How about this?
-//usage: "\n -u Hardware clock is in UTC"
-//usage: "\n -l Hardware clock is in local time"
+//usage: "\n -u Assume hardware clock is kept in UTC"
+//usage: "\n -l Assume hardware clock is kept in local time"
> > hwclock from util-linux-2.19.1 does not show timezone.
> > Busybox tries to mimic 'standard' tools behavior.
>
> The hwclock-command that i use on Gentoo and that _does_ show the
> timezone ("CEST" in my case) comes with the portage-package
> sys-apps/util-linux-2.19.1 which is from
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
> I am surprised that it doesn't show the timezone for you, but that it
> does for me (for my Gentoo-PC). I have no idea right now what might be
> causing this.
We need more data then.
Fedora 15: doesn't show timezone
Gentoo (which version?): shows timezone
Other distros: ?
Latest canilla util-linux: ?
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