Re: Warning for UX owners - date

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:49:27PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > If you are using the latest 6.1 Red Hat distribution then when startup
> > scripts detect that you are booting with milo they will add,
> > automatically, regardless of settings in /etc/sysconfig/clock, a flag
> > '-A' which forces ARC interpretation of a hardware supplied time.
> 
> _This_ is the real bug.  Just because the boot path included ARC
> doesn't mean the clock is set that way.

I strongly dislike this automatic and silent override of my
configuration either.  Red Hat tries to be "user friendly" here and
results, as usual in such situations, are mixed.  At least they
could have drop this now badly misleading 'ARC=false' from
/etc/sysconfig/clock.

OTOH older versions of /sbin/clock in use did not substract 20 years
from a hardware date on UX in a presence of '-A' so we have a somewhat
surprising change of behaviour here.  Also a prospect of explaining over
and over again "you boot via ARCBIOS but your hardware clock is not
really ARC" does not look very exciting.

  Michal