Re: Temporal wormhole?

Frank v Waveren (fvw@var.cx)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:43:00 +0200

Just for clarity: This is not, as several people have suggested, a problem
of the hardware clock set to GMT. My hwclock (RTC) is set to local time.
(Or at least it was, before I booted the kernel :-) ).

On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:31:03PM +0200, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> Since around 21:00 localtime (at least, that was when I first noticed),
> my system clock has been changed to a different time, the changes I've
> had are from 19:00 to 01:00. It only happens at bootup, and I'm pretty
> sure it's kernel related:
>
> I've set the time correctly in the bios. If I then boot the linux kernel
> with linux init=/bin/date, it gives me a changed date. If I however
> boot to windows (it's a dual boot system), it gives the right date.
> The strange thing is, the hwclock does seem to be updated because
> booting windows after booting to linux (with the mangled time), gets me the
> same time-shift as there was in linux. Is the linux kernel supposed to
> update the hwclock at all?
>
> My system is linux-2.2.12 no patches, on an intel p2-233 (klamath)(not oc-ed),
> on an abit lx6 mobo.

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			Frank v Waveren
			fvw@var.cx
			ICQ# 10074100


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