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SubjectRe: Wrong clock initialization
This is not directly a kernel problem.  I developed this after
a glibc upgrade. The problem is most distros (such as redhat)
make a symbolic link

/etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

or whatever your timezone is. On some of my systems, /usr/share is on
a disk partition that is not mounted at the time the link is needed
during initialization; the system then defaults to UTC. As a result,
each time you boot up your system loses a time equal to the difference
between UTC and your local time zone.

To fix this, just make sure /etc/localtime is actually a file on the
root filesystem, not a link to a possibly unmounted filesystem.
Just copy the one pointed to by the link.

I have systems with the same partition/mount layout which have no
problem, so I don't know why some systems get confused. So far I
have only seen this on laptops.

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Axian, Inc., Software Consulting and Training
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:34:55PM +0200, 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 ?
>
>
> --
> David Balazic
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