(hardy)Clock mis-set after install ?

xerces8 xerces8 at butn.net
Tue May 27 09:58:14 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote :
> On 05/23/2008 02:45 AM, xerces8 wrote:
> > "Dana J. Laude" wrote:
> > 
> >> xerces8 wrote:
> >> > Hi!
> >> > 
> >> > (I'm a computer enthusiast for 20 years now, been redhat linux official beta team member for
> >> years
> >> > and work as a sotware engineer)
> >> > 
> >> > Yesterday I installed Ubuntu from the hardy-desktop-i386 CD.
> >> > 
> >> > After that I noticed that the system clock (HW/BIOS clock) is set wrong. It was running
> correct
> >> for
> >> > years before ...
> >> > 
> >> > The system is not networked, neither did I change the time. So ubuntu should have no reason
> to
> >> > assume the BIOS clock is wrong.
> >> > 
> >> > Any idea what happened ?
> >> > Does this sound familiar ?
> >> > 
> >> > I tried to reproduce this under vmware, but failed. I guess vmware synches the emulated BIOS
> >> clock
> >> > to the hosts system clock so it obscured the problem (if it happened at all).
> >> 

 
> David, did you ever figure this out?

No. Do you experience it too ?
I will do an install again and see if it happens again.
When I have spare time.

Regards,
David






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