Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 11:10:11 -0700 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Wrong clock initialization |
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David Balazic wrote: > Hi! > > When the kernel is booted ( ia32 version at least ) , it reads > the time from from the hardware CMOS clock , _assumes_ it is in > UTC and set the system time to it. > > As almost nobody runs their clock in UTC, this means that the system > is running on wrong time until some userspace tool corrects it. > > This can lead to situtation when time goes backwards : > > timezone is 2hours east of UTC. > UTC time : 20:00 > local time : 22:00 > > System time between boot and userspace fix : 22:00UTC > System time after fix : 20:00UTC > > Comments ?
During shut down my system "says" it is setting the CMOS clock from the kernel clock. I would expect this to correct the problem. Is this a distro thing?
In any case, this would seem to make the problem go away after the first shutdown (if you don't dual boot with something other than Linux :).
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-- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
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