Hi,

I just installed Lenny Beta 1 and everything installs nicely. However,
my system time and hwclock are swapped.

The output of date is:
Fri Apr 4 20:40:29 PHT 2008 (should be 12:40:29)

The output of date -u is:
Fri Apr 4 12:41:28 UTC 2008

My /etc/default/rcS is set to:
UTC=no

/etc/timezone is set to:
Asia/Manila

My machine's BIOS clock is set to localtime.

Thanks for any .

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Rage Callao wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed Lenny Beta 1 and everything installs nicely. However,
> my system time and hwclock are swapped.
>
> The output of date is:
> Fri Apr 4 20:40:29 PHT 2008 (should be 12:40:29)
>
> The output of date -u is:
> Fri Apr 4 12:41:28 UTC 2008
>
> My /etc/default/rcS is set to:
> UTC=no
>
> /etc/timezone is set to:
> Asia/Manila
>
> My machine's BIOS clock is set to localtime.
>
> Thanks for any .
>
>

if you have the ntpdate package installed as run 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org'
and it should set your clock to the proper time.

hth,
jeff

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:44:53 +0800
"Rage Callao" <rage.callao@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi

> I just installed Lenny Beta 1 and everything installs nicely. However,
> my system time and hwclock are swapped.

Well, I think this is normal if you have set a time zone!

> The output of date is:
> Fri Apr 4 20:40:29 PHT 2008 (should be 12:40:29)

You can select the right time zone (or none) with "tzselect".
Then, set the hardware clock using "hwclock --systohc".

Another tool could be usefull to set up the date: rdate

man hwclock
man rdate

> Thanks for any .
I hope this

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Many thanks for replying

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
> if you have the ntpdate package installed as run 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org'
> and it should set your clock to the proper time.

I installed Lenny on a machine that has no network access so I was
hoping that ntpdate would not be necessary. Etch works fine though and
the clock is set properly.

Could this possibly be a bug in the installer for Lenny?

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On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Luca Sighinolfi <lsighinolfi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just installed Lenny Beta 1 and everything installs nicely. However,
> > my system time and hwclock are swapped.
>
> Well, I think this is normal if you have set a time zone!

Hi. Do you mean that the Lenny installer expects me not to set a time
zone if my machine's BIOS clock is set to localtime?

>
> > The output of date is:
> > Fri Apr 4 20:40:29 PHT 2008 (should be 12:40:29)
>
> You can select the right time zone (or none) with "tzselect".
> Then, set the hardware clock using "hwclock --systohc".

I have tried this but the timezone _is_ set correctly as Asia/Manila
however the clock remains skewed. Setting the hardware clock to the
system clock would simply copy the wrong time system time to the
hardware clock.

> Another tool could be usefull to set up the date: rdate
> man hwclock
> man rdate

I was hoping the that clock would be set correctly with necessitating
being online.

> > Thanks for any .
> I hope this

It has ed, thank you very much.

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:51:34 +0800
"Rage Callao" <rage.callao@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Luca Sighinolfi
> <lsighinolfi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, I think this is normal if you have set a time zone!
>
> Hi. Do you mean that the Lenny installer expects me not to set a time
> zone if my machine's BIOS clock is set to localtime?

The answer is yes: Debian expects your BIOS is set on UTC.

Try the option --localtime of hwclock (ref: man hwclock).

About rsync: yes, it needed network access.

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On 04/04/2008, Luca Sighinolfi <lsighinolfi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:51:34 +0800
>
> "Rage Callao" <rage.callao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Luca Sighinolfi
> > <lsighinolfi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Well, I think this is normal if you have set a time zone!
> >
> > Hi. Do you mean that the Lenny installer expects me not to set a time
> > zone if my machine's BIOS clock is set to localtime?
>
>
> The answer is yes: Debian expects your BIOS is set on UTC.

But if have a dual boot system with the other system expecting BIOS
set to localtime, Debian should be able to handle this:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/sy...multiboot-with

It may cause problems when rebooting after sommer/winter time changes
though, as Debian has no way of knowing whether the other system
already ajusted the local clock to the new sommer/winter time.

(To set hwclock to UTC/localtime, edit /etc/default/rcS)


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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:10:39PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:

> It may cause problems when rebooting after sommer/winter time changes
> though, as Debian has no way of knowing whether the other system
> already ajusted the local clock to the new sommer/winter time.

Yes, but you can set the other system to not adjust for sommer/winter
time.

Regards,
Andrei
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