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From: Matti Nykyri <Matti.Nykyri@iki.fi>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System date/time goes to GMT when PC wakes from hibernate
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 01:26:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150406222641.GB19930@lyseo.edu.ouka.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1819198.Yax6zhS3jH@navi>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 06:13:41PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> > ...into my /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf.  This copies over the BIOS
> > time to the kernel system date.  It works, but I'd really like to know
> > why it's necessary in the first place.
> > 
> 
> There's an option CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS on the kernel to do it automatically. I 
> think it uses utc so if you use localtime it may mess it up. This also came up 
> recently on this list but I can't remember what the problem was so you may 
> want to look there.

Don't store hwclock in localtime. It is a hack and you are asking for trouble.
Just store it in UTC. That way the worst mishap is that it gets 1 second to
a wrong direction if you happen to hit a leap second. With localtime you will
always have a change for worse 2 times a year when summer time kicks in.

-- 
-Matti


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-06 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 21:03 [gentoo-user] System date/time goes to GMT when PC wakes from hibernate Walter Dnes
2015-04-06 22:13 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-06 22:26   ` Matti Nykyri [this message]
2015-04-07 18:26   ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
     [not found] <pcmrp-3UR-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2015-04-07  1:59 ` [gentoo-user] " wireless

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