Debian bug report logs - #944, boring messages

Subject: Bug#944: clock (-u) question
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 11:32:00 -0400
From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@simons-rock.edu>


Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.56

> How is clock supposed to work?  It seems like it might read the
> CMOS clock and set the Unix time to some number.  If so it has to
> know what local time is (offset from GMT) if you leave off the
> -u maybe?  I tried to set TZ earlier in the boot script, but that
> didn't affect it either.


I'm also having a problem with clock. I *believe* it is because the
init.d/boot file runs clock before it mounts the other file systems,
and I happen to have /usr on a "local" file system.

--- snip ---
	# Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT=""
	# if not.
	GMT=""
	# Set and adjust the CMOS clock.
	clock -s $GMT
	if [ ! -f /etc/adjtime ]
	then
	  echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /etc/adjtime
	fi
	clock -a $GMT

	# Mount local file systems in /etc/fstab.
	echo "Mounting local file systems..."
	mount -avt nonfs
--- snip ---


Jim

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@simons-rock.edu>
Subject: Bug#944: Acknowledgement (was: clock (-u) question)
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