hwclock

Hello!

I need some help to understand hwclock. I live in Colombia and my
time zone is UTC -05:00 hours. If I write the following commands I got
this->
linux# date
Fri Jul 30 17:21:52 COT 2004

linux# date -u
Fri Jul 30 22:22:12 UTC 2004

which means that I´ll always be 5 hours earlier.

The problem is when I get my hwclock hour. Look at this->
linux# hwclock
Fri Jul 30 17:24:02 2004 -0.806973 seconds

linux# hwclock
Fri Jul 30 12:25:10 2004 -0.002619 seconds

I thought that it could be the same with the command date, but it
isn´t.

Can anyone help me to understand this??

Thanks a lot!

"Andrew" <c0005010@yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message
news:b5078265.0407301427.61194f1e@posting.google.c om...
> Hello!
>
> I need some help to understand hwclock. I live in Colombia and my
> time zone is UTC -05:00 hours. If I write the following commands I got
> this->
> linux# date
> Fri Jul 30 17:21:52 COT 2004
>
> linux# date -u
> Fri Jul 30 22:22:12 UTC 2004
>
> which means that I´ll always be 5 hours earlier.
>
> The problem is when I get my hwclock hour. Look at this->
> linux# hwclock
> Fri Jul 30 17:24:02 2004 -0.806973 seconds
>
> linux# hwclock
> Fri Jul 30 12:25:10 2004 -0.002619 seconds
>
> I thought that it could be the same with the command date, but it
> isn´t.
>
> Can anyone help me to understand this??
>
> Thanks a lot!

Hwclock always displays local time (at least on my machine -- FC1). Also
there are a number of reasons why the HW clock and the system clock, which
is the one "date" uses and is the "real" clock for linux, can be different.
See man hwclock for more information.

-- Steve