[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] System date/time goes to GMT when PC wakes from hibernate

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 06:13:41PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote

> There's an option CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS on the kernel to do it
> automatically. I think it uses utc so if you use localtime it may
> mess it up. This also came up recently on this list but I can't
> remember what the problem was so you may want to look there.

  Thanks, I think that's the problem.

# CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS is not set

...on both my desktop, and on the netbook.  The only difference is that
the netbook's Poulsbo chipset (bleagh) doesn't play nice with hibernate,
so I do a full shutdown, and the startup is from the text console login
prompt.  The problem didn't show up when I was re-installing (32 -> 64
bit upgrade) on my desktop, and doing full shutdowns and rebooting.  So
this seems

  I seem to remember this popping up as a new option recently during a
kernel upgrade...

Device Drivers > Real Time Clock
[ ]   Set system time from RTC on startup and resume

  This appears to do automatically what I do with the hwclock command in
the OnResume option.  Like 99% of all new stuff on "make oldconfig", I
said "No".  This time, it came back to bite me.  Next kernel upgrade,
I'll have to set that option on.

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