System time is incorrect

I just recently installed Arch Linux i686. I thought I got the time set correctly when I first installed Arch, but now I notice that the system time is incorrect. I live in Tucson, Arizona. Arizona (execpt for the Navajo Indian reservation) is on MST (GMT-7) year round, no DST. I dual boot this machine to both Windows and Linux, so the hardware clock is set to local time. When I boot to Windows, the correct time is displayed. in /etc/rc.conf, I have
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Ameria/Phoenix"
When I boot Arch, and type the date command, it displays localtime - 7 hours. Also, if a create a new file and do a "ls -l" command, the timestamp on the file is localtime - 7 hours. It appears that Arch thinks the hardwareclock is set to UTC, even though I have HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" specified.
How can I fix this?
(I did a pacman update a week ago and it looked like it installed a new kernel. Maybe this is when the incorrect system time started. Not sure.)
Charles Bailey

The Arch boot sequence, from the wiki page, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boot:
1 Grub or Lilo
2 Kernel and memory management functions loaded into memory
3 init called - follows instructions from /etc/inittab
4 /etc/rc.sysinit is called.
Early in rc.sysint , from my x86-64 Arch on a dual AMD cpu, the realtime-clock driver is loaded. In my case, it's rtc-cmos. Bugs have been reported in various places about this driver. I don't know which version of the driver, or which kernels might be affected. The driver is for PC-style computers; without it ACPI would not function.
Then, the hwclock may be adjusted for system drift depending on use of localtime or UTC.
After the local filesystems are mounted, the hwclock may be adjusted again.
You could add lines to rc.sysinit to echo the hwclock time to the screen for the boot sequence using "/sbin/hwclock -r" to see which adjustment instance is causing the errors and then take steps to correct the adjustment or prevent the adjustment from occurring.
Edited for clarity and typos.
Last edited by thisoldman (2009-09-09 02:17:27)

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