I tried to adjust the system clock by [10:24:52 /tmp]# hwclock --hctosys [09:15:21 /tmp]# [09:15:27 /tmp]# hwclock --show Sun Dec 12 09:15:39 1999 -0.396524 seconds
Which is no good because I have the hardware clock set to UTC while I want to use my local TZ. There for I issued [09:15:38 /tmp]# hwclock --hctosys --utc [11:15:48 /tmp]# which straitened the matter. However, hwclock man claims that if neither --utc nor --localtime are given on the command line it will use as the first defualt a string from /etc/adjtime. Yet the appropriate string on my system is set to UTC. [11:16:00 /tmp]# cat /etc/adjtime 11.974854 944901540 0.000000 944901540 UTC [11:16:39 /tmp]# There for, it seems to me a hwclock bug. Am I right? BTW: The whole thing of using hwclock and localtime or UTC is rather confusing. Although it does not seem a simple matter because the hardware clock does not have a record to which of the 2 it is set + Linux does not want to interfere with with other OSs business I still wish there would be a more simple or elegant solution.