Re: hwclock, date, and utc
On 02 Nov 1999, Michael Perry wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I have two debian systems; one is a desktop running slink which I changed to
> utc on the bios and set localtime on the system with no problems. I only
> run Linux so there are no problems with this. On my Fujitsu Lifebook
> laptop, I can reset things using the hwclock commands and then set the
> system date but it does not stick through a reboot. I have changed the
> utc setting in /etc/default/rcS also as suggested in that file. The laptop
> is a potato system.
>
Have you got APM compiled into the kernel? If so it resets the clock
whenever you reboot. Recompile the kernel without APM.
Anthony
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