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alleluia20

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Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 53

Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

Hello,

Since a few days ago (maybe because of the kernel upgrade? - package upgrade, not the version of the kernel, or because of the init scripts upgrade?) the clock goes an hour backwards on reboot (well, because I adjust it to the correct time, if I did not, maybe the clock would stay the same after reboot, I do not know). On /etc/rc.conf I have:

LOCALE="en_GB.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="local"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/London"

Writing the time to the hardware is OK, because hwclock --systohc gives no output text and, when shutting down, "writing time to hardware" ends with "OK".

Thank you.

csn

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 10

Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

/etc/rc.sysinit checks for "localtime", not "local":

HWCLOCK_PARAMS="--hctosys"
if [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "UTC" ]; then
    HWCLOCK_PARAMS="$HWCLOCK_PARAMS --utc"
elif [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "localtime" ]; then
    HWCLOCK_PARAMS="$HWCLOCK_PARAMS --localtime"
else
    HWCLOCK_PARAMS=""
fi

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

/etc/rc.sysinit checks for "localtime", not "local":

HWCLOCK_PARAMS="--hctosys"
if [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "UTC" ]; then
    HWCLOCK_PARAMS="$HWCLOCK_PARAMS --utc"
elif [ "$HARDWARECLOCK" = "localtime" ]; then
    HWCLOCK_PARAMS="$HWCLOCK_PARAMS --localtime"
else
    HWCLOCK_PARAMS=""
fi

Nice, this definitely needs a bugreport.

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ChemBro

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 704

Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

Had the same problem, "localtime" worked for me.

When did they changed that?

MartinZ

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From: Chiloé, Chile

Registered: 2005-06-10

Posts: 379

Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

Thanks, localtime fixed the problem here.

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whacath

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 283

Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

Yep same here, while i was at it i installed openntpd too.

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

Had Arch installed (6 months?) entered localtime then.

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

i installed openntpd

Why? ntp is better.

openntpd is designed, and *maintained*, for openbsd *only*. I put this in the wiki.

Themaister

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2008-07-21

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Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

I had same problem. I had "local" in rc.conf. Appearantly, the initscripts have changed to "localtime".

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whacath

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 283

Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

i installed openntpd

Why? ntp is better.

openntpd is designed, and *maintained*, for openbsd *only*. I put this in the wiki.

Well, When looking at the wiki, ntp seam to require more configuration then openntp. And i just want to sync time once in a while. Openntp seem to be more lightweight and do the job well enough.

And please try to keep in mind that whats better for you might be crap to others.

jmdennis

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Registered: 2009-03-21

Posts: 61

Re: Since a few days ago, clock an hour backwards on reboot

Mine was 7 hours off and this was after doing the tzdata update.  I am glad to see a way around this problem.