[TriLUG] Q: Why does my clock get reset?

[Elliot Peele]

Are you on a laptop or a desktop?

Elliot

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 13:42, Evans wrote:
> Ok, I dislike how this bit of linux intelligence.  
> 
> + At boot I set my BIOS clock to 13:00
> + Linux comes up, I log in date spits back 13:01
> + I come back about 30 minutes longer and see httpd logs go from 20Aug 
> 13:11 to 20Aug 09:13 (A negative 4 hour time shift) The date command 
> confirms the clock is off by -4hrs.  Rebooting and entering the BIOS 
> shows the hwclock is off by 4 hrs now too.
> 
> Why does the clock change?  I don't have ntpd nor apmd running.  How do 
> I get my RH7.2 system to stick with localtime & not reset my BIOS/hwclock?
> 
> Any ideas. Thanks,
> Barry / helios at CoastalNet.com
> 
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