Bug 72303

Summary:	dateconfig changes time if BIOS accessed while running
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Ganek <dan.ganek>
Component:	dateconfig	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	dan.ganek
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Description Daniel Ganek 2002-08-22 21:11:58 UTC

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Description of problem:
Dell laptops allow the user to enter the BIOS at anytime (Fn-F1).  If the user
enters the BIOS
while linux is running , returns and and runs dataconfig, dataconfig resets the
time by adding
the timezone offset  to the current time.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.On a DELL laptop boot linux 
2.Press Fn-F1 to enter the BIOS,
3.Press ESC to return to linux
4.Run dataconfig
	

Actual Results:  Time has been increment by the timezone offset; e.g., if the
timezone is EDT the time has been decrement by 4 hours.

Expected Results:  Time should be left alone

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2002-08-22 21:35:14 UTC

Do things work correctly if you just run dateconfig without going into the bios?

Comment 2 Daniel Ganek 2002-08-23 19:56:48 UTC

dateconfig works as expected if the BIOS is NOT entered

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2002-10-22 19:51:27 UTC

I think that this is a rather uncommon situation and therefore not worthy of
investing time in.  That's not to say that something better couldn't be done but
there are much more important issues to tend to.  Closing as 'wontfix'.