Bug#159037: general: Time Problem
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:07:54PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> "Matt Filizzi" <fizz@beyond.hjsoft.com> writes:
>
> > Package: general
> > Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-31
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: sid
> >
> > I don't know what is causing this problem but all I know is that I have
> > narrowed it down to being caused either by a package or by the install
> > system. I installed from the woody install disks then upgraded to sid.
> > What happenes is that the time jumps ahead then back, eg (this is output
> > from "while true; do date;done"
> >
> > Sat Aug 31 19:07:26 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 19:07:26 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 19:07:26 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 19:07:26 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 20:19:01 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 20:19:01 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 20:19:01 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 19:07:27 EDT 2002
> > Sat Aug 31 19:07:27 EDT 2002
> >
> > The only thing I did differently then previous installs was I told the
> > installer that it could set the bios go UTC. The only time it is really
> > noticable is when in X, the screensaver kicks in when it jumps.
>
> I can confirm that this bug happens on my system as well, even as far
> as the time jump being approximately 71 minutes. I had ntpd
> installed. I've recently tried disabling ntpd, but since it happens
> very sporadically for me, I can't tell yet whether disabling that
> works -- it sometimes takes on the order of several weeks of uptime
> before it happens.
>
> My bios clock is also set to UTC. I didn't even think of that as a
> possible cause before, but I don't see how this could be the cause
> since, as far as I know, the bios clock is only read or set at boot
> time or shutdown.
As far as I know, this bug is not caused by NTP, because I installed ntp
in hopes it would solve the problem. I've slowly been stoping running
processes to try to narrow down the cause as well (even processes that
seemingly have nothing to do with time) with no luck.
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