Comment 2 for bug 26926

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:30:47 +0100
From: Robert Luberda <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: util-linux: hwclock runs too early, breaking the system time

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

My hardware clock is set to localtime, not to GMT. And everything worked OK
until a few days ago.
Yesterday I noted that my system clock was an hour fast. I set it to a
valid value, rebooted the system, and (surprise!) the problem renewed.

After some investigation I found that hwclock is now run before /usr
is mounted, so it assumes that the local time zone is UTC (because
/etc/localtime was a dangling symlink on that time).

To make it more clear, here's an example from my system.
The S22hwclock.sh script sets the date to:
 Sun Dec 11 14:48:47 UTC 2005

But when the S35mountall.sh is run, the date is:
 Sun Dec 11 15:48:48 CET 2005

Best Regards,
robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/pdksh
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libslang2 2.0.5-1 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 1.38-2 universally unique id library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

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