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Re: timestamp problems


Hi -

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:58:01PM +0530, satya komaragiri wrote:
> [...at boot time ...]
> systemtap Mon Oct 13 14:42:18 2008 159315837
> systemtap Mon Oct 13 14:42:19 2008 159316258
> //(then jumps)
> systemtap Mon Oct 13 09:12:20 2008 645426712
> systemtap Mon Oct 13 09:12:21 2008 645426460
> [...]
> system    Mon Oct 13 14:42:19 2008 162789467
> //(similar jump in system time too )
> system    Mon Oct 13 09:12:20 2008 649037391
> [...]
> The time after the jump was the correct UTC time ( i had checked immediately)
> I don't know if that's normal or is my clock messed up.

My guess is that your hardware RTC clock is set to some local time
zone, and the kernel can't recompute its system time in UTC until
userspace comes up and tells it what the RTC time zone was.  If so,
setting your hardware clock to UTC should fix this problem.


- FChE


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