Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: Wrong clock initialization | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 20:17:54 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 19:34, 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 ?
Why don't you simply set your CMOS clock to UTC?
- -- Regards Michael Büsch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 20:16:51 up 4:12, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.07, 1.24
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