On Monday, March 09, 2015 10:20:39 PM Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I'm in Canada/Eastern timezone.  For some reason, my machine seems to
> come up in GMT when waking up from hibernation.  This started happening
> a week or two ago.  I do not think this is related to my conversion and
> re-install from 32-bit to 64-bit.  I worked OK for a while.  Only
> recently did it start waking up with the clock 5 hours ahead of Eastern
> Standard (i.e. GMT).  Since the time change this past Sunday, it's been
> waking up 4 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight.  It definitely looks like
> it's coming up in GMT.  I reset it to Eastern time, but after
> hibernation and wakeup, it comes up GMT.  I don't know why.  Any ideas?
> Here are the contents of...
> 
> /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf
> /etc/timezone
> /etc/conf.d/hwclock
> 
> ...a sanity-check on /etc/local/timezone
> 
> ...my script to manually sync my machine clock.
> 
> ============================================================
> 
> [d531][waltdnes][~] grep -v ^# /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf
> 
> TryMethod disk.conf
> Distribution gentoo
> EnsureLILOResumes yes
> LogVerbosity 3
> LogFile /var/log/hibernate.log
> PowerdownMethod shutdown
> RestartServices sshd
> OnResume 00 /bin/cat /home/waltdnes/.appointments
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> [d531][waltdnes][~] cat /etc/timezone 
> Canada/Eastern
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> [d531][waltdnes][~] grep -v ^# /etc/conf.d/hwclock 
> clock="local"
> 
> clock_hctosys="YES"
> 
> clock_systohc="YES"
> 
> clock_args=""
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> [d531][waltdnes][~] diff -s /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern 
> Files /etc/localtime and /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern are identical
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> [d531][waltdnes][~] cat bin/settime 
> #!/bin/bash
> date
> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/openrdate -n -s ca.pool.ntp.org
> /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/hwclock --systohc
> date
> 
> 

Are you using OpenRC?
If so, do you have the hwclock init script set to run at boot?

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez