https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754329 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754329#c0 Summary: Make clock handling more robust Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 12.1 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: archie@dellroad.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 The basic problem is that the system hardware clock never gets set correctly on a newly installed system where the hardware clock's factory setting is completely wrong, even when you are running ntpd. As a result, every time the system reboots, the clock is reset back to the wrong time again. Please see Bug #699400 for a description of the problem. It is complicated and has some subtleties. However it is 100% reproducible, the cause is completely understood, and it has affected to many people as witnessed by the comments. Even so, someone marked that bug resolved/invalid. OK, if everything is working "fine", this consider this a feature request to make everything work "even better". Even though he believes the bug is invalid, in comment #40 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699400#c40 Werner Fink proposes some solution(s). This issue is being filed to request those solution(s). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set hardware clock to a crazy value 2. Boot system, enabling NTP 3. Let NTP set system (not hardware) clock correctly 4. Power cycle system 5. Clock will be set to crazy value again Bug #699400 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.