Disable hardware clock syncronisation by kernel

ilvista · 05-08-2012, 07:19 AM

hi
I 've a problem disabling the hardware clock syncronisation by the kernel.
now when i change the date from the gnome desktop,the bios clock changes also .is there anyway to disable this syncro.

i tried hwclock with all possible options and still get the same result.

i'm running Centos 6.2

thanks

MensaWater · 05-08-2012, 07:25 AM

I don't believe the kernel is doing such a sync.

At boot the hwclock is read to set the system time.

At shutdown the system time is written to the hwclock to sync them.

If you do "grep hwclock /etc/init.d/*" you'll see the scripts that are running the hwclock command. You might try commenting out the lines there.

The question is why wouldn't you want hwclock and system time to be the same?

ilvista · 05-08-2012, 08:23 AM

thx for the fast reply

well my company has a lot of databases servers ,and sometimes they need to change the system date to insert some old records , so they have to change the date (this a database migration) .sometimes employees forget to change the date back ,so the next boot the server wont boot up because of fsck check (the date of last modified is in the future) .

anyway ,i tried what you told me

Code:

[root@srv2115 ilvista]# grep hwclock /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/halt:[ -x /sbin/hwclock -a -e /dev/rtc ] && action $"Syncing hardware clock to system time" /sbin/hwclock --hctosys
/etc/init.d/ntpdate:		#    /sbin/hwclock --systohc

I tried to comment the /sbin/hwclock --systohc but the hardware clock is still changing whenever i change the gnome destop date.

thx a lot ,I think i'm gettin closer !!