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[Eric Richards <e.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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=>  I think it was "wolfi" and "Anders" (may be more?) who solved it
=>
=>  I had to try it a couple of times before it worked OK.
=>
=>  below a reply from wolfi
=>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
=>
=>  Hi all,
=>
=>  I now managed to shut down the box and reboot it without getting the
=>  time settings messed up.
=>  What I did:
=>  After Anders suggested, that my /etc/adjtime file might be faulty, I
=>  renamed it to /etc/adjtime.old to disable it.
=>  Then I went into YaST2, timezone settings, changed something, changed it
=>  back, just to make sure YaST2 will write the data which I basically only
=>  wanted to make sure it will be 'kept'.
=>
=>  The new /etc/adjtime looks as follows:
=>
=>  0.000000 0 0.000000
=>  0
=>  UTC
=>
=>  Thanks to Anders & Cheers .... Wolfi
=>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
=>  mine came out as
=>  0.000000 1038853285 0.000000
=>  1038853285
=>  LOCAL
=>
=>  were the old copy was
=>  11187.809267 1038803068 0.000000
=>  1038803068
=>  LOCAL
=>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
=>
=>
=>  Just to refresh your memory on Saturday 07 December 2002 00:59  New
 Zealand =>  time, Carlos E. R. told us:
=>
=>  =>  The 02.12.01 at 22:32, wolfi wrote:
=>  =>
=>  =>
=>  =>  > Did you find a solution for this?
=>  =>  > I have got exactly the same problem on one of my boxen.
=>  =>  > In /etc/init.d/boot.clock it says -> see below.
=>  =>  >
=>  =>  > This one seems to be important:
=>  =>  > /sbin/hwclock --hctosys $HWCLOCK
=>  =>  > which means, that on boot system time is adjusted to BIOS time. But
 in =>  =>  > fact, the opposite happens.
=>  =>
=>  =>  It sets system clock from CMOS (BIOS) time. Look the manual page:
=>  =>
=>  =>    --hctosys
=>  =>         Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock.
=>  =>
=>  =>         Also set the kernel's timezone value to the local timezone as
=>  =>  indicated by the TZ environment variable and/or /usr/share/zoneinfo,
 as =>  =>  tzset(3)  would interpret them.  The obsolete tz_dsttime field of
 the =>  =>  kernel's timezone value is set to DST_NONE. (For details on what
 this =>  =>  field used to mean, see settimeofday(2).)
=>  =>
=>  =>        This is a good option to use in one of the system startup
 scripts. =>  =>
=>  =>
=>  =>  > The BIOS time gets adjusted to system time, and then it's wrong.
=>   Exactly =>  > as described in Eric's first email.
=>  =>  >
=>  =>  > ANY IDEAS ???!?!?
=>  =>
=>  =>  Timezones, adjtime, set up bios time (UTC) from the bios itself...
=>  =>
=>

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