Windows likes to have the hardware clock set to local time. So I set the linux clock config to ARC=true. But then the sysinit script ends up issuing: hwclock -hctosys -A -A is not a valid option (-a is), and anyway the version of hwclock on my system will only accept one option per call.
what kind of system do you have? IIRC, you don't have 'hwclock' on an alpha, and that's the only platform where 'ARC' is a meaningful option...
Ah, I see. My /etc/sysconfig/clock said "UTC=true,ARC=false" so I assumed that ARC was some sort of alternative to UTC. Now I see that the answer is to have BOTH false. Despite the plethora of sys.admin. tools, it's difficult to find out what they do in terms of files. Is this documented anywhere? sag and nag (spectacularly unhelpful names) where not initially installed with my system, and only later did I realise they were actually packages.