[arch-general] DST and suspend

[Sergey Manucharian]

> 2009/3/10 Sergey Manucharian <sergeym at rmico.com>
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I wonder if anybody else is experiencing such a problem.
> > Here in USA the Daylight Saving time started from the last Sunday,
> > and my box has switched the clock properly. But then I found that
> > every time when I suspend my ThinkPad R61 and bring it back to life
> > the clock is switched back to old winter time! I run ntpdate to fix
> > it, and everything is fine until the laptop is suspended again.
> >
> > Today I've updated tzdata and kernel - the same behaviour still
> > persists...
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Thanks for ideas.
> >
> > Sergey
> >
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:27:08 -0400
Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette at gmail.com> wrote:

> I though arch was saving the clock state at shutdown, so the
> computer's internal clock was in sync with what the OS had.
> 
> But maybe the bios has a DST hardcoded in it?
> 

I looked into BIOS - no such thing as DST. But - strange - after
several cycles of suspend-restart-shutdown in different order it works
now... 

Cheers,
Sergey