New F11 for the XO-1 build 5-timezones

[Paul Fox]

hi yioryos --

yioryos wrote:
 > I have very limited wifi access so let me answer for the record some of your 
 > questions
 > I see time either by 'date' or 'hwclock' in the terminal

when describing your problems, you need to be explicit as
to which of those you're referring to.  "date" reports system time,
and "hwclock" reports what the RTC says.  in addition, you should
tell us whether you're using "--utc" or "--local" to hwclock (or,
if neither, tell us the contents of /etc/adjtime).  hwclock will
report different times depending on those options.

 > I change /etc/localtime by cp or ln -s the respective
 > /usr/share/zoneinfo file
 > I did not change the /etc/sysconfig/clock file that reads: 
 > ZONE="US/Eastern"
 > UTC=False

does anyone know who creates /etc/sysconfig/clock?  on the XO, UTC
should be 'true'.

paul

 > The arbitrary time change does not follow after changes in /etc/localtime. 
 > There the time changes as expected but is still off by certain
 > hours.  I can not find a pattern for the clock changing point. 
 > I looked at 00:00 and 12:00 GMT, hwclock and localtime and at
 > 24h after last ntp update.
 > I list the last line of the binary /etc/localtime file because it does shows 
 > the timezone in use by that file.
 > Sorry if I missed something
 > Hopefully the next build will have the /etc/adjtime and UTC
 > setting corrected. 
 > Then we'll see if "time problem" persists.
 > 
 > 
 > --- On Sat, 8/15/09, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
 > > Subject: Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5-timezones
 > > To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
 > > Cc: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
 > > Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 9:27 PM
 > > Yioryos, when you changed
 > > /etc/localtime did you also change
 > > /etc/sysconfig/clock?
 > > 
 > > Did the symptom (unexplained change of system time after a
 > > few hours of
 > > charging) only ever follow your change to /etc/localtime?
 > > 
 > > Others ... what is the *correct* method to change operating
 > > system
 > > timezone?
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > > James Cameron
 > > http://quozl.linux.org.au/
 > > 

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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org