Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 20:27:55 +0200 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | Re: Wrong clock initialization |
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george anzinger wrote: > > 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?
The time is properly converted first to be localtime, if your CMOS is localtime. So this does not fix anything.
> > 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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