Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2324 mails)

[Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 12:51 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
> Istvan Gabor said the following on 11/06/2009 12:13 PM:
> > I don't know about laptops but on desktops this can occur if the battery on 
> > the motherboard has run out.
>
> That was my first thought.
> However the statement of the problem hasn't said anything about the
> motherboard clock.  Yes, if it has failed, be it a hardware failure or a
> dead battery, that would require resetting the Linux time on every boot.
>
> How to check?
> I'd say go into the BIOS on hardware boot.  Most BIOS's let yo adjust
> the clock there.   It it keeps resetting to the same value (chip
> dependent 'all zeros' then I'd replace the battery.
>
> Of course it _could_ be a hardware failure.
>
> How old did you say this was?


I checked the bios clock earlier today and it seems to be keeping time
and date ok.  I think I bought this laptop about three years ago.  I
rebuilt the /etc/adjtime file and that seems to have allowed me to keep
the clock synchronized on gmt ok.  

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