On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:02:54 +0100 Kwpolska <kwpolska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf > <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:40:10 +0100, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> # timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 > >>> Failed to issue method call: Input/output error > >> > >> > >> That message is disconcerting (at least the error message should have > >> been clearer). Could you have a look in "journalctl" (as root) to see > >> if you can get more information about what went wrong? > >> > >>> Sometimes I don't get an output when running "timedatectl set-local-rtc > >>> 1". > > > > > > Resp. one time. > > > >> That means it succeeded. > > > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > I don't know how to use journalctl, to get some useful information. > > > > [snip] > > > > > >> If I remember correctly, one of the side effects of having your RTC in > >> localtime is that nothing will write to the RTC automatically. > > > > > > Correct for my new Arch Linux install. > > > > > >> I know you don't want to hear about the problems with localtime, but > >> to anyone else stumbling upon this: not having your RTC in UTC is > >> broken and will cause problems. > > > > > > It doesn't cause an issue in 10 years, but for sure using UTC usually is > > the better choice, if you don't want to have the local time for the BIOS, > > e.g. for timestamps when storing BIOS settings, that by the way are limited > > anyway. > > For personal historical reasons currently all my *NIX expect local time. > > > > Regards, > > Ralf > > If you really, REALLY want this: > > 1. make the last line of /etc/adjtime say “LOCAL”. > 2. pacman -S ntp > 3. Run the following script, then run it whenever you think your clock > is incorrect (as root). > > #!/bin/bash > ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > hwclock --set --date "$(date)" > > -- > Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 > stop html mail | always bottom-post > http://asciiribbon.org | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html Notice, however, that ntpdate is going for deprecation in favor of ntpd -q and ideally both should be replaced by the ntp daemon. See man 8 ntpdate for drawbacks of running this program. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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