Clock out of sync again

ok, the clock, i cant get it right.
using KDE, i cant seem to get my clock to display what i want.  since the new deprecation for the timezones, i have had problems.  i went through the entire tutorial a couple times, and have made manual adjustments to files, and clock alike. 
my clock is still about 7 hrs behind, which is my timezone, PST (los angeles) -8GMT, with daylight savings time is -7GMT, or vice versa.
anybody have any foolproof suggestions?

the error i was referring to  was the time being displayed incorrectly, i mispoke.  i had it set at UTC, and with my timezone set to Los Angeles, it looks no different than when i set the HW clock to Los Angeles, and system clock to Los Angeles. 
i guess i can go through it again.
ok, after entering this
grep ^HARDWARECLOCK /etc/rc.conf
hwclock --utc
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
grep ^TIMEZONE /etc/rc.conf
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
this set my current time to 5 hours behind, and my UTC to -12 hours behind, this is probably because the time was wrong to begin with.
then using KDE i set the time to current, which is 1:44pm
now
hwclock --show
reflects 1:44pm
by now im a bit confused. 
i thought HW clock, was my cmos, not arch.
# date
Mon Aug 1 13:46:47 CDT 2011
now next time i edit my cmos clock which i alter my systems over here regularly, i will have to remember that i just changed my lifetime format from localtime to UTC, and have to first figure out if daylight savings time is in effect, to see if Pacific time is -7 or -8 currently, then add that to my local time to get UTC time.  see how confusing setting CMOS to UTC is....
ok, i will admit the above was sort of a rant and to highlight the problems one may run into...
now, back to square 1,
ok
# hwclock --show
displays
Mon 01 Aug 2011 01:50:57 PM CDT -0.172132 seconds
and
# date
displays
Mon Aug 1 13:52:03 CDT 2011
but since i have a timezone set, why is HW clock (aka cmos) displaying the same as my desktop clock, when i set the HW clock for UTC?
Last edited by wolfdogg (2011-08-01 20:51:24)

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