OK, after investigating a bit, I can describe what's going on a bit better, although I don't think I'm any closer to a solution.
The machine in question is a desktop, not a laptop, and I don't run apmd. However, in BIOS I do set monitor suspend/standby. Timezone is set _correctly_, in the sense that hwclock or date reports PDT (after I installed timeconfig). However, if my monitor goes into standby, whenever I "wake the system up," the system clock (date) will not reflect the correct hardware clock (hwclock) time. The system time will be off by 9 hours (before hwclock time). This leads me to believe that the kernel (or some libraries) doesn't reset the system clock correctly upon resuming from suspend. (Again, date and hwconfig indicate the same time zone, PDT, but the time doesn't agree with each other. I don't think this has to do with a improperly linked timezone file, since I wrote in my original post /etc/localtime==/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific==/usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/PDT8PST. Strangely enough I have two other systems similary installed with MDK8.0, but they don't exhibit this warped system time behavior. </rant mode> I've been a long time Linux user ~9yrs., but I'm getting really exasperated w/ Linux. I largely use Mandrake because it comes precompiled w /i586 optimizations, so I don't have to jack around too much. I think the religion of "robust and reliable" is wearing a bit thin. Most of the recent (RedHat & Mandrake) distributions lately have been unusable in a fundamental sense, and I no longer have the patience to tinker w/basic issues, I just want the system to be "robust and reliable" and minimize administration. That shouldn't be to much to ask?? It's not as if I also have the most "bleeding edge" stuff that wraks havoc on systems. I think I'm going to move to freeBSD. More reliable, and less administrative overhead. This from a long time believer in Linux. </rant mode off> Thanks, Mark
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