From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karunambaran A Subject: Re: Problem in clock setting Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:39:53 +0530 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030604173953.1d340d69.sangel@eth.net> References: <20030531042233.713c7bf9.sangel@eth.net> <16092.25293.583395.811601@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16092.25293.583395.811601@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Glynn Clements Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > > My question is why the time is > > recognized > > as UTC ?( Other OS in my PC does not have any problem in the clock. > > I have been installing all RH versions since 6.2 and this problem is > > for the first time. Also, in my office PC I installed RH 9.0 and the > > clock is fine) > > Is there any reason why hwclock might not be able to read the > "localtime" file at startup? E.g. if /etc/localtime is a symlink to > the zone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo, but /usr is a separate > filesystem, hwclock won't be able to read it if it is run before /usr > is mounted (which is normally the case at startup). > > -- > Glynn Clements Very many thanks. That's exactly the reason. I removed the sym link and copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta to /etc/localtime to get the desired result. From RH Linux 6.2 to RH Linux 8.0 also my / and /usr was on different partitions and this problem never occured. May be it was not a sym link earlier, I hope. Thanks again for the insight you provided.