On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mark Hannah wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Can anyone help me with a problem that has been driving me crazy for the last
> few weeks?
>
> Since we switched to BST, my linux time has somehow got an hour ahead.
> I can chage the time by doing :-
>
> date --set='-1 hour'
>
> but, on the next re-boot the time reverts back to being an hour fast.
> Can anyone tell me what is going on?
I think what is happening is that the BIOS date and Linud date are out of
synch - reset the BIOS time to correct value and you should be sweet.
Older kernels are not good at saving system time to BIOS clock - I think
they started doing this in 2.2.16 (or it may be slakware version 7.1
started doing this)
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
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