Hardware clock fix for Debian on Mac Mini
Posted on July 19, 2008
On my Mac Mini, the hardware clock was seriously screwed up under Debian. The clock would set itself 1 hour back for each boot and cause all kinds of strange issues with cron when corrected. A small fix will remedy this situation.
1. sudo vim /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
2. change 'HWCLOCKPARS=' to 'HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa"' (note: that's two dashes before directisa, even if your browser might put them together)
3. On Debian Lenny, you have to do the same to the HWCLOCKPARS line in /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh