Description of problem: Filing this against F16, but also experienced this with F15 after upgrading the system from F14. This is not the hwclock-load.service bug in the F15 installer. My hw clock is using local time, which for me is -0600 from UTC. After booting, the system time is set to 6 hours _earlier_ than local time, as though the system time was being set to UTC with the hw clock using my local time. # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 17 17:03 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver # cat /etc/adjtime 0.000000 1340812145 0.000000 1340812145 LOCAL # cat /etc/sysconfig/clock # The time zone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime. # This file is only for evaluation by system-config-date, do not rely on its # contents elsewhere. ZONE="America/Denver" For example, I booted earlier when my local time was 9:11 AM, and date gave: Wed Jun 27 03:11:11 MDT 2012 I have verified that the hw clock is correct local time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F16 upgraded from F15 (which had been update from previous releases) How reproducible: Always, after reboot Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: System time off by UTC offset, but in the wrong direction Expected results: System time correct after boot. Additional info:
Do you have /usr on the root filesystem, or as a separate mount?
(In reply to comment #1) > Do you have /usr on the root filesystem, or as a separate mount? /usr is separate filesystem
Time is set before /usr is mounted... in that case, you need /etc/localtime to be a copy, not a symlink.
Thanks, I copied the file to /etc/localtime and it works as expected. Having /usr on a separate filesystem used to be a recomended layout, but apparently no longer is. Can you point me to a discussion of issues I may encounter if I keep this layout?
A split /usr layout is fine, provided that the initramfs mounts both / and /usr. See this Fedora 17 feature page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove
Not sure if there is a more direct way to do this, but I forced initramfs to mount /usr by setting a symlink in /usr/sbin/init to /sbin/init, and then passing init=/usr/sbin/init to the kernel at boot time. I can then use a symlink for /etc/localtime, and this also eliminated a few other error messages I was seeing.
An initramfs created using the version of dracut that's currently in F16 updates-testing should be able to mount /usr. The "usrmount" dracut module does it. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9063
The dracut in F16 updates-testing works for me! Perhaps when this is pushed to updates the resolution on this should be changed to ERRATA from NOTABUG. Once I looked into it, more that just the system time was broken by /usr not being mounted in initramfs. I consider this a bug.
Out of curiosity - what where the other problems that you saw?