strange problem with system time

James Lemke jim at TheLemkes.ca
Thu Apr 15 14:01:27 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:16, James Lemke wrote:
> I took an older machine (HP Vectra, P2-450, 128M, 10G, eth0=dfe530tx+,
> eth1=3c905b) and did a fresh install of FC1 on it.  I ran up2date and
> applied all fixes.
> 
> The system appears to work fine except that the system time keeps
> jumping to approximately 4 hours before the current time.  This happens
> whether or not ntpd is running.  hwclock is fine.

F Y I
I updated the BIOS and then turned off all of the BIOS APM functions. 
That resolved the problem.

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Jim Lemke   jim at TheLemkes.ca   Orillia, Ontario   FWD# M:245401 H:246889
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