I've hosed my clock setup

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:

> Quoth Kevin O'Gorman:
> > I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's
> > clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock.
> > Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup
> > thats usually once a day (no fault of Linux, I just have to shut this
> > off at night).
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Did you ever get this straightened out?
> 
> Kurt
> 

Sort of, but it's a hack.

I found that the /var/log/messages stuff started having two different
timestamps starting partway through the boot.  That was really odd.

Details: my RTC is set to local time because I occasionally boot to
Windoze.  Timestamps were all okay up to where /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog
gets run and tries to do the right thing with the clock, but from
then on, the kernel reported times 7 hours off, presumably through
klogd.  Meanwhile other things continued to report the correct time,
presumably through syslogd.  All claimed to be PDT times.

My hack was to put the line
        /sbin/hwclock -s --localtime            # Local hack
in /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog as the first line of the start() function.
I don't understand how, but that fixed it.  What's really odd is
that as I read things, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit should have already
executed exactly that command.

++ kevin