The
adjkerntz
utility maintains the proper relationship between the kernel clock, which
is always set to UTC and the CMOS clock, which may be set to local time.
The
adjkerntz
utility also informs the kernel about machine timezone shifts in order to
maintain proper timestamps for local time file systems such as the MS-DOS
file system.
The main purpose of maintaining these timestamps properly is to keep the
timestamps of a
FreeBSD
MS-DOS file system and an MS-DOS operating system synchronized when they are
installed on the same system rather than fixing broken MS-DOS file
timestamps.
If the file
/etc/wall_cmos_clock
exists, it means that the CMOS clock keeps local time (MS-DOS and MS-Windows
compatible mode).
If that file does not exist, it means that the CMOS clock keeps UTC time.
The
adjkerntz
utility passes this state to the
machdep.wall_cmos_clock
kernel variable.
Adjustments may be needed at system startup and shutdown, and
whenever a time zone change occurs.
To handle these different situations,
adjkerntz
is invoked in two ways:
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| -i
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This form handles system startups and shutdowns.
The
adjkerntz
utility is invoked with this option from
/etc/rc
on entry to multi-user mode, before any other daemons have been started.
The
adjkerntz
utility puts itself into the background.
Then, for a local time CMOS clock,
adjkerntz
reads the local time from it
and sets the kernel clock to the corresponding UTC time.
The
adjkerntz
utility also stores the local time zone offset in the
machdep.adjkerntz
kernel variable, for use by subsequent invocations of
'adjkerntz -a'
and by local time file systems.
For a local time CMOS clock
'adjkerntz -i'
pauses and remains inactive as a background daemon until it
receives a SIGTERM.
The SIGTERM will normally be sent by
init(8)
when the system leaves multi-user mode (usually, because the system
is being shut down).
After receiving the SIGTERM,
adjkerntz
reads the UTC kernel clock and updates the CMOS clock, if necessary,
to ensure that it reflects the current local time zone.
Then
adjkerntz
exits.
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| -a [-s]
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This form is used to update the local time CMOS clock and kernel
machdep.adjkerntz
variable when time zone changes occur,
e.g., when entering or leaving daylight savings time.
The
adjkerntz
utility uses the kernel clock's UTC time,
the previously stored
time zone offset, and the changed time zone rule to
calculate a new time zone offset.
It stores the new offset into the
machdep.adjkerntz
kernel variable and updates the wall CMOS clock to the new local time.
If
'adjkerntz -a'
was started at a nonexistent time (during a timezone change), it exits
with a warning diagnostic unless the
-s
option was used, in which case
adjkerntz
sleeps 30 minutes and tries again.
This form should be invoked from root's
crontab(5)
every half hour between midnight and 5am, when most modern time
zone changes occur.
Warning: do not use the
-s
option in a
crontab(5)
command line, or multiple
'adjkerntz -a'
instances could conflict with each other.
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The
adjkerntz
utility clears the kernel timezone structure and makes the kernel clock run
in the UTC time zone.
Super-user privileges are required for all operations.
