Bug 6600 – ThinkPad laptop does not adjust date at EDT-to-EST boundary

Bug 6600 - ThinkPad laptop does not adjust date at EDT-to-EST boundary

Summary:	ThinkPad laptop does not adjust date at EDT-to-EST boundary

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jakub Jelinek
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Reported:	1999-11-01 10:36 EST by Jay Turner
Modified:	2015-01-07 18:39 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-12-13 20:20:19 EST
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Description Glen Foster 1999-11-01 10:36:52 EST

My ThinkPad laptop didn't adjust to EST on Sunday 31-Oct.
Hilary Stokes also had the same problem on her ThinkPad
laptop.  My solution was "rdate -s lacrosse" and Hilary's
solution was to run timetool (as root) to change the date.
The bottom line here, however, is that gettimeofday() and
friends apparently doesn't work right on an IBM ThinkPad
laptop.

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-05-22 10:53:59 EDT

assign to jakub

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-06-05 00:44:25 EDT

Is this still a problem with the current release?

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2002-12-13 20:20:19 EST

This is a hardware flaw on the PIIX Intel chipset believe it or not. summer time
adjustment if the last day in october is a sunday is broken in the rtc

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