On Saturday, November 12, 2005, 10:54:43 PM, Henrik wrote:

> I'm using the wakeupshutdown.py plugin with nvram, which works "fine"
> except:

> My system is running UTC, so if I select a program to record that starts
> at 22:00, and shutdown the system the wake up time is set correctly in
> the BIOS to 22:00. But the clock in the BIOS is one hour behind my
> "system" clock, so when it's time to start recording, the computer will
> first start an hour to later, when the BIOS's clock has reached 22:00,
> but in reality the clock is 23:00

> A simple solution would be to modify line 315 in the wakeupshutdown.py
> plugin to subtract 1 hour from wakeup_time like this:

> wakeup_time = start_time - config.TV_RECORD_PADDING -
> config.BOOTTIME_PADDING - 1

> But there should be a solution that works for everybody, but I don't
> know where to start. I'm running Gentoo with Freevo 1.5.4 and some of
> the files that might be relevant for a solution are:

> /etc/conf.d/clock # contains CLOCK="UTC"
> /etc/localtime # points to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen

> the "date" command says that I'm in the CET timezone

> output of: /sbin/hwclock --debug --test
> hwclock from util-linux-2.12r
> Using /dev/rtc interface to clock.
> Last drift adjustment done at 1131830004 seconds after 1969
> Last calibration done at 1131830004 seconds after 1969
> Hardware clock is on UTC time
> Assuming hardware clock is kept in UTC time.
> Waiting for clock tick...
> ...got clock tick
> Time read from Hardware Clock: 2005/11/12 21:53:22
> Hw clock time : 2005/11/12 21:53:22 = 1131832402 seconds since 1969
> Sat Nov 12 22:53:22 2005  -0.455735 seconds

> Note that Hw clock is one hour behind system clock. 

I do recall this similar problem and workaround it by setting the
hwclock to localtime.  hwclock --localtime.

/Robert



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