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Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ...

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> If your policy choice ends up being "set HW clock to local", then you
> also have to make sure the correct time zone is set on each operating
> system, each time it boots.  I have no idea how one does that on Debian
> Live, since I've never used Debian Live.  So, I can hope for your sake
> that Debian Live uses a UTC HW clock.

You may also circumvent the problem by making sure your "online" OS is
configured to set its time via NTP once it gets access to the Internet,
this way, any problem with the hwclock will only impact the "boot".

Many routers face a similar problem because they don't have any hwclock,
so at the beginning of the boot they basically don't know what time it
is (it's arbitrarily initialized to some "dummy" value like 01-Jan-1970
or to some timestamp saved at some point in the past), and they only get
a valid time after they can connect to an NTP server.


        Stefan

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differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-23 22:50 +0100
  Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-23 23:10 +0100
  Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2023-03-23 23:10 +0100
    Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2023-03-23 23:30 +0100
  Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-23 23:50 +0100
  Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-03-24 15:50 +0100
    Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-24 18:20 +0100
      Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-24 22:50 +0100
        Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-24 23:00 +0100
          Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-24 23:10 +0100
            Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-03-25 00:20 +0100
              Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 01:10 +0100
                Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 04:20 +0100
                Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 04:50 +0100
                Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 06:00 +0100
                Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 09:00 +0100
              Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-25 05:30 +0100
      Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-25 05:30 +0100
        Re: differences between hwclock <-> date due to time zone issues? ... Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-03-25 05:50 +0100

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