[UCI-Linux] Re: problem with hwclock

Joachim Feise jfeise@ics.uci.edu
Sat, 05 Oct 2002 15:35:57 -0700


Dirk Groeneveld wrote:
> Hello to the countless users of linux at UCI!
> 
> I hope you can help me with this problem:
> My hardware clock is correctly set to UTC, but my system clock is, too, 
> even after rebooting (especially after rebooting) or executing 
> /etc/init.d/clock, which is supposed to set the system clock correctly. 
> I traced the problem down to hwclock. hwclock --hctosys behaves exactly 
> the same way as hwclock --hctosys --utc. TZ is not set, but setting it 
> doesn't seem to make a difference. /etc/localtime points to 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific.

What are your parameters for clock?
My Slackware installation calls /sbin/clock -u -s at boot time.