James Wilkinson wrote:
>
...snip...
> You'll probably want to do something like:
> # hwclock --set --utc --date="2000/02/05 18:00"
> # hwclock --utc --hctosys
> # rm /etc/adjtime
>
> This sets the hardware clock to whatever GMT is when you give it the
> local time, the next line says update the system with the hardware clock
> time, and the last one makes sure you don't get strange clock skews on
> each reboot -- that last one had me puzzled for a while.
Does anyone have any references to why Linux is now setting the RTC to
GMT, rather than local time. I've not been able to find and
explanation/rationale.
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