Bug 52940 – BIOS clock is set to system time of last shutdown on boot

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description n0ne 2004-06-03 20:30:54 UTC]

when i boot my toshiba satellite 1105 the BIOS clock is set to the time of the last system time of linux running.  if i shutdown june 1 2004 at 13:24:42 and i boot my laptop into linux on june 3 2004 at 17:43:52 the BIOS clock and system clock start at june 1 2004 at 13:24:42.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.check time in bios
2.boot linux 
3.kill power in any way
4.wait any amount of time
5.check bios time again
5.boot linux hwclock and date both show date and time ~when the shutdown/system kill happened

Actual Results:  
the bios clock is set to the "system time" on boot

Expected Results:  
BIOS clock should not change on boot 

durring boot up VT0 sayes setting the system time to what is stored in the bios
while it is doing just the oppisite

[Comment 1 Cameron Crothers 2004-06-08 00:00:01 UTC]

This sounds alot like my proble with my dual boot system with my rc.conf set to "local"

If this is the case try running

hwclock --localtime

[Comment 2 n0ne 2004-06-08 20:35:57 UTC]

when i run hwclock --localtime first thing on boot up it is the same as system time.
but system time is the time of when i shutdown linux and the time date that is saved at shutdown. if i dont shutdown properly it is the time and date of the last sucessful shutdown
and yes i have rc.conf set to "local".  i don't know if it matters but i know in my dmesg it desplayes...
ACPI-0179: *** Warning: The ACPI AML in your computer contains errors, please nag the manufacturer to correct it.
    ACPI-0182: *** Warning: Allowing relaxed access to fields; turn on CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG for details.

[Comment 3 n0ne 2004-07-03 13:58:56 UTC]

well i booted up today and i was shocked to find my system time was set right i havent canged any thing that i can rember. i dont even think i have synced in a wile... but it was set right before i rdate ran so i guess if fixed itself

[Comment 4 n0ne 2004-09-25 20:45:25 UTC]

for some reasion it just works now so im closing the bug