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911	"Configuring the setclock Script: ""hwclock --show"" always shows localtime"	lizardo@…	lfs-book@…	"Chapter 7, ""Configuring the setclock Script"", says the following: 
 
""If you cannot remember whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC time, 
find out by running the hwclock --show command. This will tell what the current 
time is according to the hardware clock. If this time matches whatever your 
watch says, then the hardware clock is set to local time. If the output from 
hwclock is not local time, chances are it is set to UTC time. [...]"" 
 
According to hwclock's man page, with the --show option, ""The time shown is 
always in local time, even if you keep your Hardware Clock in Coordinated 
Universal Time"" 
 
This way, the ""hwclock --show"" command will always show local time and does not  
help finding whether hardware clock is set to UTC or localtime. The command 
that does exactly what the LFS book intends to say is ""hwclock --localtime 
--show"", which shows the localtime if hw clock is set to localtime, or UTC 
otherwise. This works because, I suppose, ""--localtime"" means ""show the 'raw' 
clock (as seen on the BIOS setup)""."	defect	closed	lowest		Book	TESTING	normal	fixed