Jürgen Beisert <jbe@...> writes: > > > On Tuesday 17 December 2013 10:48:16 Dave Festing wrote: > > On the 9thDec - date and hwclock changed from displaying the same time to > > the hwclock being correct BUT date showing a time 13 hours ahead of my > > current local time. Only on my mini2440s running either the 2012.12 > > Pengutronix BSP or the 2013.09 version > > > > Now, 13 hours is the difference between NZDT and UTC, but UTC should read > > 13 hours behind NZDT ... if anything. > > > > I get around this little problem by adding a line in /etc/init.d/startup > > > > hwclock --hctosys > > > > so that every time the machine reboots they are "synchronised". > > Please use also the "--utc" parameter when running this command. The RTC time > is expected as UTC. Without this parameter the RTC uses local time. > > Regards, > Juergen >
OK, I have set my mini2440 hwclock to UTC. hwclock --show gives UTC time hwclock -u gives local time hwclock -l gives UTC time When I set the hwclock on my netbook (Ubuntu) to UTC hwclock --show gives UTC time hwclock -u gives UTC time hwclock --localtime gives local time (there is no -l option) Something here that I either fail to grasp or is wrong. Fortunately, I can tell when "date" is 13 hours out by looking at my solar PV log files. The sun only shines during the day here :) If the original problem is fixed by setting the hwclock to UTC I'll be happy. Cheers, Dave
