[Mageia-dev] systemd and time management

Fri Sep 9 11:36:48 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 09/09/11 09:00 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hello list.
+> 
+> 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 ?
+
+This page is probably your friend:
+
+http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated
+
+Col
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+Colin Guthrie
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