Every time I would go through a suspend/resume cycle on my Dell laptop, the clock would loose five hours. Since I'm five hours behind GMT, this seemed an odd coincidence. I believe the problem is with hwclock in that it does not have a default UTC vs. Local mode. It attempts to guess which mode was used last.
So, in /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/resume.d/7clock I changed: CLOCK="" [ "$UTC" = "yes" -o "$UTC" = "true" -o "$UTC" = 1 ] && CLOCK="-u" to: CLOCK="--localtime" [ "$UTC" = "yes" -o "$UTC" = "true" -o "$UTC" = 1 ] && CLOCK="--utc" this seems to have my problem. Randy K. Wilson
