[Mageia-dev] systemd and time management

Fri Sep 9 10:40:48 CEST 2011

On 9 September 2011 10:00, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+> I don't know if it is a bug, or a local misconfiguration, but I can't have
+> system clock set to the correct time at boot since switching to systemd. My
+> hardware clock is set to locale time (this is a dual-boot host, and windows
+> doesn't like UTC hw clock very much), but the clock is always set 4 hours
+> early, and I have to use ntpdate to correct it. I have no clue if it is a
+> wrong timezone, or a local/UTC misconfiguration issue (despite 4 hours seems
+> too large for the last case, as I'm in CEST).
+>
+> I finally managed to import from redhat almost all necessary piece of
+> software in our ntp package (still one file needed), but that's anormal to
+> rely on network for such issue.
+>
+> The old initscripts used two pieces of configuration for this:
+> - /etc/sysconfig/clock text file for the settings
+> - /etc/localtime binary timezone
+>
+> I'm trying to figure how systemd manage this. From the man pages at
+> http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/timezone.html, there is an
+> /etc/timezone file that should contains the timezone (we should probably add
+> it to the systemd package, as other new system configuration files), but it
+> doesn't work. Also, the timezone is just one part of the problem. I also
+> found a reference to timedated, but for programmers, without any reference
+> to a way to configure it.
+>
+> So, does anyone have a clue there ?
+
+Doesn't systemd manages it through /etc/adjtime?
+