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Article #10Re: A whacky DATE bug in Linux - Problem gets crazier!
From: Patrick Jelinck
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 00:00
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automatic daylight saving change (at a fix date) may be quite tricky if you have multiple os's suppose that you have this option activated as well in win95 and linux on same machine, and change date would be 25/10/1998. if you boot in win95 and linux before this date, and then again in both of them after this date, your bios clocks jump from summer time to winter time (europe) may be executed TWICE !!!, once by win and once by linux and your pc's clock will be 1 hour late ! in fact these automatic change mechanisms check if the change date is in the interval between your current and your previous boot, because it must work even if your computer keeps powered off during the whole 24 hours of change date solution: activate automatic change only in WIN or in LINUX steve On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 23:50:52 +1000, "Peter B. West" <p.west@uq.net.au> wrote: >Ron House wrote: >> >> I am starting to suspect you are right, that there is a newly created >> bug in here somewhere. But why am I the only person on the planet to >> notice it??? > >Probably because you are one of the few people to whom the >synchronisation of timestamps on linux and the DOS partition is >important. I tried it on my 2.0.34 RedHat 5.1 system and saw the same >problem.
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