From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EezKT-0000BX-LK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:26:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jANIMmD4013281; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:22:49 GMT Received: from smtp5.wanadoo.fr (smtp5.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jANIBPV8010129 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:11:25 GMT Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0507.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id CE3D71C0164B for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:11:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from [82.124.229.30] (APuteaux-151-1-30-30.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.124.229.30]) by mwinf0507.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 88A361C01650 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:11:25 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20051123181125559.88A361C01650@mwinf0507.wanadoo.fr Message-ID: <4384B0CC.5020403@wanadoo.fr> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:11:24 +0100 From: Charles Trois User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: fr, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times References: <200511181030.02690.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <200511182314.16159.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <43818D47.8010407@wanadoo.fr> <200511212256.18057.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511212256.18057.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jANIMmDM013281 X-Archives-Salt: 9dfaa0c2-3a31-4e8a-94d2-05c0c2bafc85 X-Archives-Hash: bfe988ffef6e53c79b10a31c8ea22219 Benno Schulenberg a =E9crit : > Charles Trois wrote: >=20 >>The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is >>GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but "date" >>keeps returning GMT + 2. >=20 >=20 > Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does=20 > 'hwclock --show --debug' say? Look for the line saying "Time read=20 > from Hardware Clock:". >=20 > If the hardware clock is really set at UTC, do you maybe have TZ=20 > set? 'echo $TZ'. If it is, then unset it: 'unset TZ', and then=20 > see if date and hwclock operate correctly. And also check that the=20 > symlink /etc/localtime points at the correct zone. >=20 > Benno Here are the results: ~ # hwclock --show --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.12i Using /dev/rtc interface to clock. ... Hardware clock is on local time Assuming hardware clock is kept in local time. Waiting for clock tick... ... Time read from Hardware Clock: 2005/11/23 19:04:14 Hw clock time : 2005/11/23 19:04:14 =3D 1132769054 seconds since 1969 Wed Nov 23 19:04:14 2005 -0.188934 seconds ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime ->=20 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris and in /etc/conf.d/clock: CLOCK=3D"local" echo $TZ returns nothing, so TZ is presumably not set. All that seems correct to me, and yet the time returned by "date" is=20 still one hour fast. What else can I check? Charles --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list