[Mageia-dev] systemd and time management

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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