hwclock off by +7 hours in virtualbox

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#1 Mon, 2014-01-20 20:23
edge226
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every time I reboot the hwclock is off and I need to run hwclock --systohc to correct this. My timezone is set to Canada/Mountain. Something fishy is going on. How do I fix this?

Mon, 2014-03-24 11:53
ginjachris
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Could the hwclock be running in localtime instead of UTC? Or vice versa? I think that in terms of best practice the hwclock should always be set to UTC. Do hwclock -u -w to set this (as found on http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/cmd/cmd.csp?path=h/hwclock).

Presumably the system time is fine though? If not, get Chrony or NTPD running to keep it in time.

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