Bug 508835 - [4.6] The system time leaps 2 days 21 hours 41 min future.
Summary: [4.6] The system time leaps 2 days 21 hours 41 min future.
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vitaly Mayatskikh
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Depends On: 491147
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-30 08:00 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2011-01-30 23:26 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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A bug in timer_interrupt() may have caused the system time to move up to two days or more into the future, or to be delayed for several minutes. This bug only affected Intel 64 and AMD64 systems that have the High Precision Event Timer (HPET) enabled in the BIOS, and could have caused problems for applications that require timing to be accurate.
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Last Closed: 2009-08-13 15:35:16 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:1211 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2009-08-13 15:34:46 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2009-06-30 08:00:03 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #491147 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 3 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2009-07-08 15:59:30 UTC 
Committed in 89.0.4
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-08-13 15:35:16 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1211.html
Comment 8 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 23:26:12 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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A bug in timer_interrupt() may have caused the system time to move up to two days or more into the future, or to be delayed for several minutes. This bug only affected Intel 64 and AMD64 systems that have the High Precision Event Timer (HPET) enabled in the BIOS, and could have caused problems for applications that require timing to be accurate.
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