これ合ってるのかな。
53行目のif文はhwclockに何の影響も与えないようだけど。

$ cat -n /etc/rc.d/rc.0 | sed -n 52,59p
  52  if [ /etc/adjtime -nt /etc/hardwareclock ]; then
  53   if grep -q "^LOCAL" /etc/adjtime ; then
  54    echo "Saving system time to the hardware clock (localtime)."
  55   else
  56    echo "Saving system time to the hardware clock (UTC)."
  57   fi
  58   /sbin/hwclock $CLOCK_OPT --systohc
  59  elif grep -q "^UTC" /etc/hardwareclock 2> /dev/null ; then