Bug 2783 - suspend/resume causes clocks to get set forward
Summary: suspend/resume causes clocks to get set forward
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2396
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: clock
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-05-13 02:35 UTC by Yaron Minsky
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-05-14 20:24:06 UTC
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Description Yaron Minsky 1999-05-13 02:35:40 UTC
My machine is a regular desktop, but I have power-saving
settings currently on (in my BIOS).  Whenver the machine
goes into suspend mode and comes back, the clock is set
forward.  I'm not sure what the magic formula is --
sometimes it seems to be set forward 20 minutes, sometimes 4
hours.

The only workaround I can figure out at the moment is to
disable energy-saving mode from the BIOS.

Comment 1 Yaron Minsky 1999-05-13 02:43:59 UTC
Further information about the bug:  it appears that what happens is
that when the resume occurs, the timezone is ignored and the hwclock
value is directly set to the real clock value.  That, at least,
explains the cases I've run up against with the 4 hour move.  I'm not
sure about the 30-minute shift, but I can't replicate that one yet
anyway.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-13 14:15:59 UTC
Try grabbing the latest apmd package from Raw Hide; alternatively,
start apmd with the '-u' option if your system clock is
in UTC. Does that help?

Comment 3 Yaron Minsky 1999-05-13 17:37:59 UTC
I switched over to storing my clock in regular time, not UTC (using
linuxconf) and the problem still persists, sort of.  Now, when I do
apm -s, it wakes up with the right time, but when I do apm -S, it
wakes up with the time set BACK by four hours.  This is with the
newest apm installed from the updates directory.  I haven't tried the
RawHide package.  The command line invocation for apmd (according to
ps) is:

    /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5 -W

Comment 4 Yaron Minsky 1999-05-14 01:41:59 UTC
One more addition:  When time is stored as UTC, then:
  return from apm -s sets time FORWARD four hours
  return from apm -S doesn't mess up the clock

when time is not stored as UTC, then:
  return from apm -s doesn't mess up clock
  return from apm -S sets clock four hours BACKWARDS

This would suggest that restoring from apm -s always assumes non-UTC,
and restoring from apm -S always assumes UTC.  But this is almost too
odd to believe.

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-14 20:24:59 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2396 ***


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