> Greetings! > I think I have finally managed to get Debian working correctly > with APM (suspend/resume features) on my IBM Thinkpad. On boot up, my > laptop sets the time from a NTP server on the Internet using > ntpdate. However, after coming out of suspend mode, the time is always > behind by 5 hours. This wouldn't be too much of a problem is the time was > all that was affected. However, when I do an uptime this morning, > following the resume, it showed that my laptop had been up for about 20 > hours. I actually know for a fact that it has been up all weekend (since > Friday morning). So, I am not really sure where my problem is, but it > seems that my clock management is going to hell when in suspend > mode. Can anyone tell me what is happening here and how to prevent this? > > Thanks, > Bryan Walton
5 hours huh? You wouldn't happen to be exactly 5 hours off from GMT would you? When you resume it usually sync's with the hardware clock, but if your hardware is on GMT/UTC you have to tell it so, otherwise it is treated as local time. * Heather * star@ many places...
