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I had to conpile rtc support into the kernel, then the problem was gone.
(i used a mixed setting of clock and hwclock after distribtion upgrade)

:-) Detlef

root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Anthony DeStefano wrote:
> > I'm using kernel 2.1.58 and I have discovered that my time is short by
> > 4 hours when I turn my computer on. I'm located in central Pennsylvania
> > which puts me in the middle of the Eastern time zone (-5 GMT). My CMOS
> > clock is correct.
> >
> > I have been looking at this for about two weeks and have looked through
> > all of the init scripts and everything is fine. I noticed today that
> > the following appeard at bootup:
> >
> > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-135
> >
> > I looked up char-major-10-135 and it's /dev/rtc. Is this causing my
> > clock problems? If so is there a fix for it?
> >
> > --
> > -= Anthony DeStefano =-
> > <destefano@usa.net>
>
> Whadda know, you live close(ish) to me (Lancaster, PA)! Anyway, that likely
> isn't the problem. I don't know what would be trying to access /dev/rtc (it
> isn't all that old, so I dought that distributition's startup files would be
> accessing it yet). However, the system-time-setting dosn't go through the
> /dev/rtc code. More likely, you have the time zone set incorrectly. (BTW -
> Eastern is -4).
>
> -=- James Mastros
>
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> Subject: Re: System Time
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