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init

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Registered: 2006-04-10

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When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

Hi

When I set my correct date & time with

date 041118002006

my laptop freez, and i only can reset.

What is this?

kth5

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

is your current time behind or in the future? it may happen that your laptop tries to go into suspend mode or something, if you set your time too far into the future all of a sudden. that may be a possibility.

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init

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

is your current time behind or in the future?

In the Bios the time is normaly, In X  2 hours in future

kth5

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

is your current time behind or in the future?

In the Bios the time is normaly, In X 2 houers in future

this may because a wrong timezone/bios time combination was set in rc.conf. if you have a m$-linux dual-boot, set

HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"

in any other case use localtime. pay attention with timezone as it is case sensitive and might confuse linux if set incorrectly.

setting time into the past normally is not a problem for linux, except that application timers may be confused. for example flashplugin seriously doesn't like it when you set the time before it was started.

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I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell

init

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

These are my settings, I have no dualboot

LOCALE=en_US
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE=Europe/Berlin
KEYMAP=de
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

kth5

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

looks fine to me, i assume that you are in CEST aka GMT+1. so 2 hours ahead sounds like yet another offset has been set by your desktop environment. KDE has an option for this for example. if you have set everything correctly and do not want different users to be in their own timezones, leave it set to default.

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I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell

init

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

I use openbox, no kde or gnome, I don't have set anything, only the rc.conf

init

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Re: When setting Time & Date Laptop Freeze

OK it seems to be a problem with the X-Server, withount X , no problems