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From A. V. Hwclock issue

Package: util-linux; Maintainer for util-linux is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for util-linux is src:util-linux.

Reported by: Andrey Nikitushkin <a.v.nikitushkin@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: invalid

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 09:15:45PM +0300, Andrey Nikitushkin wrote:
> Hello, Mark!
> 
> I don't set the time in the BIOS manually. The time in the BIOS is set
> automatically when I restart my laptop with Debian. The time in the BIOS
> during a reboot is set based on the values received from hwclock, the time
> in the BIOS based on the hwclock information should be as localtime, not
> UTC. That's why I wrote about the problem with hwclock.
> 
> My /etc/adjtime:
> 
> 0.000000 1582921088 0.000000
> 1582921088
> LOCAL

Exactly. So you have it configured to save localtime to the hwclock.

Therefore, if you call 'hwclock --utc' you will get the wrong information,
becuase your hwclock is not set to UTC.

Please read hwclock(8). You should be using 'hwclock --localtime' or relying on
what is in /etc/adjtime.

Mark

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