[Bug 105517] Re: hwclock --show states a timezone

[James Haigh]

It does make sense for hwclock to show a timezone. The system is
configured whether the hardware clock is in UTC or localtime. It makes
sense if hwclock simply reports this configured timezone.

However, it thinks my hardware clock is in BST when it is indeed in UTC,
and it reports the wrong time for BST.

See: Bug #970929

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Title:
  hwclock --show states a timezone

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: util-linux

  I just booted the i386 livecd 20070411.  I noticed that the clock was wrong so I ran hwclock --show to display the time.  It said:
    Wed 11 Apr 2007 12:18:17 PM UTC   -0.874738 seconds
  (copy-typed, I'm afraid).

  The hardware clock does not record timezone information so it is wrong
  of hwclock to impute a timezone to it.  This leaves me in some doubt
  as to whether in fact the clock is showing 12:18 or 13:18.  (12:18
  would be correct since this machine's hardware clock is supposed to be
  set to UTC.)

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