Mark
I ran into a simular problem with my LM80 install. I found a link
from /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST I deleted the original
link, and re-created the link to the correct timezone, and it has been
fine for sometime now (I believe that was about 14 months ago)
Darcy
Mark Chou wrote:
> I must be missing something obvious, but I'm at my wits end.
>
> My hardware clock (in BIOS) is set to local time. When system boots
> up, it says "Setting clock (localtime) : Correct_date Correct_time
> *PST*. (I live on the west coast in US). "hwclock -r --localtime"
> shows correct time, and "date" shows correct time (PST).
>
> They system runs for an hour or so. I type "date" on command line.
> It shows an exact integer difference of 9 hours behind the hwclock,
> i.e "date" gives hwclock time-9 hours *PST*. I look at my logs, and
> it doesn't say anything about the system time being reset.
>
> I use linuxconf, MCC, and hwclock to change system clock back to
> correct hwclock time, but this pattern repeats itself. If I don't
> change the sytem time, on subsequent reboot, rc.sysinit says "Setting
> clock (localtime): bad_date bad_time *UTC*." I've even tried deleting
> /etc/adjtime, but this doesn't work either.
>
> What's going on here and how do I go about solving this? (And please
> don't suggest NTP!)
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> /etc/sysconfig/clock:
> ARC=false
> UTC=false
> ZONE=US/Pacific
>
> diff
> /etc/localtime==/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific==/usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/PDT8PST
>
> I'm using MDK 8.0, with latest official updates (kernel-2.4.8-31.2mdk
> and glibc-2.2.2-6.1mdk)
>
>
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