New F11 for the XO-1 build 5-timezones

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Mon, 8/17/09, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> From: Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5-timezones
> To: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
> Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 9:48 AM
> 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.

Sorry I didn't know. 
I use neither option. The "date" time is where I see the arbitrary changes.

I did report the content of /etc/adjtime in a previous post.

> 
>  > 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/
>  > > 
> 
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
> 
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