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
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-11-01 15:36 UTC by Jay Turner
Modified: 2016-11-24 12:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-12-14 01:20:19 UTC
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Description Glen Foster 1999-11-01 15:36:52 UTC 
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 14:53:59 UTC 
assign to jakub
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-06-05 04:44:25 UTC 
Is this still a problem with the current release?
Comment 3 Alan Cox 2002-12-14 01:20:19 UTC 
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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