Re: Reconfiguring internal clock

From: Brian Brazil (bbrazil_at_netsoc.tcd.ie)
Date: 02/29/04

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    On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:51:33PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
    > Incoming from Brian Brazil:
    > > I believe the relavent file is /etc/adjtime.

    I was wrong there. Looking at ye olde /etc/init.d/hwclock(first)?.sh it infers
    that /etc/default/rcS is the file. Debian uses this to overide /etc/adjtime
    for its time-related boot scripts from my reading of them.

    > I think adjtime is intended for managing clock drift, though I see
    > from catting it, it does have "UTC" in it. Hmm ...

    This selects --localtime or --utc for hwclock if not specified, according
    to the man page. The other possible value is 'LOCAL'. hwclock --adjtime
    will do clock drift stuff based on this file.

    Base-config appears to alter rcS but not adjtime.

    From this my interpretation is that as long as you aren't messing around
    with hwclock(outside of the boot scripts) only rcS needs to be right.

    Brian 

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