On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:31:52 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2003 22:18:38 -0400
> burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:55, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > How can I tell if my linux box is running with the clock set to
> > > universal or local time?
> >
> >
> > 'uname -a' gives you the system time. It's pretty obvious from that
> > what time standard it is using (local or otherwise).
>
> Huh??
>
> The only think uname -a shows is the time the kernel was built based on
> the system time of the system it was built on (which may not even be the
> system it was running on). If you can ascertain anything about the
> hardware clock on the system from that, Sherlock, I'd like to know how.
Look at /etc/sysconfig/clock
On SuSE mine is:
# Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to UTC, and to
# "--localtime" if your clock runs that way.
HWCLOCK="-u"
On Caldera it is:
CLOCKMODE=GMT
On SuSE, the option is really an option to the 'hwclock' command. I don't
see how you can get the current setting, unless you compare the time from
'hwclock --show' with that of 'date'. If they are off by longer than the
time it takes to run the two commands, then the hardware clock is probably
GMT.
That is all I have.
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