Re: [9fans] Date woes

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Tue Apr 23 12:16:36 EDT 2013, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:16:37AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > But this may affect the way the date is displayed, not the UTC?
> >
> > are you sure it's not a display issue?  sometimes a double-timezone
> > conversion or incorrect timezone conversion can screw up the date.
> > fossil uses time(0), which in theory should not conflict.
> >
>
> But it is incorrectly setting rtc on exit to the wrong value. So this is
> not a display problem. One "time" has the wrong value, /dev/rtc has the
> right (until reboot, because wrong is stored---I verified in the BIOS),
> and fileserver /dev/time has the wrong.
>

are you sure that these flags might not be part of the problem?
there is no clear answer to the question, "is rtc clock in local time
or gmt?"

          -r   synchronize to the local real time clock, #r/rtc.

          -L   used with -r to indicate the real time clock is in
               local time rather than GMT.  This is useful on PCs that
               also run the Windows OS.

- erik