I have a bunch of spreadsheets, browser tabs, etc, open all the time, scattered over various work areas. Rather than re-open them every day, I simply hibernate, using suspend-to-disk. This way, things are where I left them.
The past couple of months, when the machine comes up from hibernation, the clock is a few hours ahead. Now it's 4 hours ahead. It was 5 hours ahead before the switch to daylight savings time. This looks suspiciously like GMT. GMT is 5 hours ahead of EST, and 4 hours ahead of EDT. I dug deeper. Apparently, it's just the "kernel system time" that gets bumped forward when it wakes up from hibernation. The BIOS clock is OK. As a heavy-handed hack, I've inserted the line... OnResume 01 hwclock --hctosys ...into my /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf. This copies over the BIOS time to the kernel system date. It works, but I'd really like to know why it's necessary in the first place. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
