On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 23:09 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
The message XFMail.051106184605.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk from (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk contains these words:
Anthony is on Azores time, though his computer thinks it's GMT:
Odd - the computer thinks it's Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London, but the clock is now two hours slow. Off to adjust. Either something's borked the clock, or the battery's on the way out. I shall watch it.
On 2.4 kernels there used to be something in /proc that seemed to know the CMOS battery status. I have never been able to find it on 2.6. It wasn't an lmsensors thing (as I have never had that working on any of my machines)
I do remember getting a machine into a state where it thought the BIOS time was a different timezone to the system time and kept adding or subtracting hours from the bios time to set the system clock....maybe that's what has happened to you.