Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (310 mails)

[Christopher Mahmood <ckm@xxxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

Did you notice that the trailer on each message on suse-kde says not
to crosspost? 

* Patrick (tracerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [020509 17:03]:
> Anthony brought up the subject of time/date being wrong on his mails, 
> but my problem is somewhat different.  This seems to be a problem that 
> goes back to the 7.1 days!  Each time I boot up, the system clock has 
> the wrong time and requires resetting.  The bios clock is correct as I 
> have checked that already.

This sounds vaguely familiar...

> Going back to a previous mail when the problem showed up back in October 
> 2001, it seems to be a bug in the /etc/rc.d/boot script which will 
> cause the system clock to NOT be set to the hardware clock on boot.  
> The bug has been around for quite some time it seems.  The problem was 
> simple in that adding the full path to the hwclock command solved the 
> problem.  The solution was to change the CLOCKCMD=hwclock in 
> /etc/rc.d/boot file to CLOCKCMD=/sbin/hwclock and for good measure also 
> adding /sbin/hwclock --hctosys in the /etc/rc.d/boot.local file!

Ah ha!  I don't know where you guys are digging this stuff up at but
here's my response the last time someone posted this:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Mar/0390.html


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-ckm