[Mageia-dev] systemd and time management

[Thierry Vignaud]

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?