Clarify the meaning of the clock_hctosys variable

Reported-by: Ian Abbott <[email protected]> X-Gentoo-Bug: 405861 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405861
OpenRC · Mar 2, 2012 · 0fa164d · 0fa164d
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diff --git a/conf.d/hwclock b/conf.d/hwclock
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 # you should set it to "local".
 clock="UTC"
 
-# If you want to set the system time to the current hardware clock
-# during bootup, then say "YES" here. You do not need this if you are
-# running a modern kernel with CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS set to y.
+# If you want the hwclock script to set the system time (software clock)
+# to match the current hardware clock during bootup, leave this
+# commented out.
+# However, you can set this to "NO" ifyou are running a modern kernel
+# with CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS set to y and your hardware clock set to UTC.
 #clock_hctosys="YES"
 
 # If you do not want to set the hardware clock to the current system