http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538357 User werner@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538357#c21 --- Comment #21 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2009-10-07 02:32:41 MDT --- If CMOS clock is running in localtime than you're right. In this case the CMOS clock should be not touched. Beside this normally the Linux kernel assumes that CMOS is running in UTC. That is that during boot the kernel set to the system time to UTC (and the glibc is using /etc/localtime to caluate the correct offset for displaying the system time in the local time frame). Now with the help of the binary warpclock in the initrd the kernel will be informed that the CMOS is *not* running in UTC but in local time together with the offset to UTC. Then the kernel its self correct the system time to the UTC time. This is done *before* the root file system is mounted (to avoid a root file system mounted in the future for systems right of the meridian of the international dateline). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.