Re: system time - thank you

> If the adjtime file doesn't exist, the default is local time.

and why not utc ?

;)

daniele

Bob Proulx wrote:
> daniele pendenza wrote:
>
>> By the way a question arises: why the default in (*) is localtime ...
>> It seems that when I first wrote the post the system '/etc/default/rcS'
>> has been configured with 'UTC=yes' ... mmm ... odd, isnt it ? ;)
>>
>
> The default is whatever was last used to set the clock.
>
> If you specify neither --utc nor --localtime, the
> default is whichever was specified the last time hwclock
> was used to set the clock (i.e. hwclock was successfully
> run with the --set, --systohc, or --adjust options),
> as recorded in the adjtime file. If the adjtime file
> doesn't exist, the default is local time.
>
> If it appeared that the default for you was localtime then the last
> time hwclock was used to set the clock must have been told to be
> localtime.
>
> Bob
>

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