Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> wrote:
> Not in the BIOS. When you installed Slackware, it asked you if your clock
> was set to local time or UTC. According to /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Clock,
> this is stored in /etc/adjtime.

No, in /etc/hardwareclock.
It contains a line "UTC" when the hardware clock is in UTC or only
commentlines when it's in localtime:
if grep -wq "^UTC" /etc/hardwareclock ; then
echo "Setting system time from the hardware clock (UTC)."
/sbin/hwclock $CLOCK_OPT --utc --hctosys
else
echo "Setting system time from the hardware clock (localtime)."
/sbin/hwclock $CLOCK_OPT --localtime --hctosys
fi
(from /etc/rc.d/rc.S).

From that moment on the hardware clock isn't used anymore, Linux
keeps its own internal time. At shutdown the time is written back
the same way TO the hardware clock, to store optional changes
(like network time adjusts).
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