Re: /etc/adjtime (setting the hardware clock to local time on Debian 11)
On 2/11/22, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
> José Luis González <bugs.jlg@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> According to
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime
>>
>> There should be an /etc/adjtime file to configure the timezone for the
>> hardware clock. I have no such file in my Debian 11 laptop. May I know
>> if the file was removed and what was it replaced with?
>
> >From what I can tell, it's created by hwclock. If you run hwclock --set
> it should be created. Possibly you can also run
>
> timedatectl set-local-rtc 0
>
> but I don't know if that works if the file doesn't exist.
>
>> I just want to set the hardware clock to local time since this machine
>> is shared with Windows and the clock is actually local time.
>
> You might consider telling Windows to use UTC as well. For example here:
> https://feldspaten.org/2019/11/03/windows-10-clock-in-utc/
I debootstrap** Debian for those times I need a new installation.
These were the instructions I'd been using up until last time (maybe a
year ago):
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/apds03.html.en#idm4468
Basically that says;
=== BEGIN SNIPPET
# editor /etc/adjtime
Populate that with:
0.0 0 0.0
0
UTC
To configure timezone;
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
=== END SNIPPET
During debootstrap, the /etc/adjtime file doesn't exist until that
step is run, but it's also a brand new install that hasn't been booted
a first time yet.
That manually created file then works flawlessly for me here, but my
needs are simple. I think the hardware clock is set to UTC, by the
way.
Cindy :)
** N.B. Debootstrap was priceless as a method of installing Linux on
dialup Internet connections.. in case that still helps anyone else.
--
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with birdseed *
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