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Setting the system clock.

My systemclock is always one hour more than it shall be.
It doesn't matter that I change it in control-panel (rh 4,3)
Here is a bit of my rc.sysinit. I think that I shall change something in it, but how ???
(I think that the -u is wrong.)

# Set the system clock.
echo -n "Setting clock"

ARC=0
UTC=0
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/clock

# convert old style clock config to new values
if [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "GMT" ]; then
       UTC=true
elif [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "ARC" ]; then
       ARC=true
fi
fi

CLOCKFLAGS="-a"
if [ $UTC = "true" ]; then
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -u";
echo -n " (utc)"
fi
if [ $ARC = "true" ]; then
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -A";
echo -n " (arc)"
fi
echo -n ": "
clock $CLOCKFLAGS

date# Set the system clock.
echo -n "Setting clock"

ARC=0
UTC=0
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/clock

# convert old style clock config to new values
if [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "GMT" ]; then
       UTC=true
elif [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "ARC" ]; then
       ARC=true
fi
fi

CLOCKFLAGS="-a"
if [ $UTC = "true" ]; then
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -u";
echo -n " (utc)"
fi
if [ $ARC = "true" ]; then
CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -A";
echo -n " (arc)"
fi
echo -n ": "
clock $CLOCKFLAGS

date

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n94magho

ASKER

Mabe it's a good answer. Could you tell me what's good and whats bad with that???
(And I like to know how change in rc.sysinit anyway)

bjacobs

Hello,
I run Slackware and don't have a rc.sysinit. Here is what is in rc.S which I think is the equivalent file:

if [ -x /sbin/clock ]; then
/sbin/clock -s
fi

You would have to change to suit your clock program path or move clock to /sbin.
If you are in the U.S have you always had this problem of did it start when Daylight Savings time ended?

Hope this helps!

n94magho

ASKER

Perfect. But I'm in sweden. The -u option seems to override my local time. (my timezone settings) Now it works perfect...