Bug 466800 - Devices in /dev have forward timestamp
Summary: Devices in /dev have forward timestamp
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: udev
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-13 17:34 UTC by Imtiaz Rahi
Modified: 2009-07-14 16:58 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:58:59 UTC
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Screenshot of ls of /dev along with uptime and date (153.08 KB, image/png)
2008-10-13 17:34 UTC, Imtiaz Rahi
no flags Details
Output of ls in /dev (13.33 KB, text/plain)
2008-10-13 17:35 UTC, Imtiaz Rahi
no flags Details

Description Imtiaz Rahi 2008-10-13 17:34:00 UTC
Created attachment 320207 [details]
Screenshot of ls of /dev along with uptime and date

Description of problem:
After booting it is found that few devices in /dev have forward timestamp.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
udev-124-2.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
Boot Fedora 9 and do 'ls -l' in /dev

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
/dev/null have 6 hours forward timestamp after booting

Expected results:
/dev/null should have current timestamp after booting

Additional info:
Similar situation found in Debian Lenny with 2.6.26 kernel and udev version 125.

Comment 1 Imtiaz Rahi 2008-10-13 17:35:38 UTC
Created attachment 320208 [details]
Output of ls in /dev

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2009-01-20 11:37:28 UTC
hardware clock and system time zones differ?

Comment 3 Imtiaz Rahi 2009-01-21 07:43:56 UTC
Hardware clock and system time both have same time and are synchronized. Hardware clock is set to localtime not in UTC. OS has configured time zone "Asia/Dhaka".
This problem also remains in Fedora 10.

Also, it has been observed that when in "system-config-date" is configured as "System Clock uses UTC" and the machine is restarted, timestamp of "/dev/null" is found in sync with current time.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 02:57:16 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:58:59 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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