Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Charles Kerr <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By chance did you say you have your bios time in UTC or local when you 
installed (what option did you select) ?  Not sure if that could be your 
problem or not.  I have a time deamon, so I am reset to a time server,haven't 
seen any problem. I also run my bios time in UTC, fyi.

On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:35, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
> " Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Sun Nov 16 11:13:33
> 2003  "
>
> The above message is coming from /var/log/boot.msg.  Problem is that
> something is resetting the BIOS time.  This seems to happen at shutdown.  I
> rebooted, called setup and set the date and time.  I set it to 19.13.33 
> Fired up 9.0 and the above message showed up.  I am in the US/Central
> timezone in /etc/sysconfig/clock.  This zoneinfo comes from Yast during the
> install and is correct for this location.
>
> The problem is that the wrong time is sent to the BIOS so at reboot time it
> shows up as yesterday.   The date and time just get progressively wrong.
>
> Anyone noticed this problem.  It is easy to see by just typing "date" after
> setting the bios time
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