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Subject: Re: Unable to set system clock
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On 2012-01-10 05:57, Navani Kamal Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting problem in changing system clock of my board.
>
> On rebooting the board after changing time, I can see the new time in kernel boot messages like
>
> “pmic_rtc pmic_rtc.1: setting system clock to 2012-01-10 18:22:15 UTC (1326219735) “
>
> but again it used to reconfigure system clock. Kindly see the boot messages which comes after above mentioned message-
>
> Configuring network interfaces... done.
>
> Tue Jan 10 10:28:00 UTC 2012
>
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
>
> Starting syslogd/klogd: done
>
> So now on giving “date” command at prompt I am getting the same time which was there before
>
> root@mx35pdk:~# date
>
> Tue Jan 10 10:29:17 UTC 2012
>
> What I am unable to understand is why this problem is coming with time only. Date is getting changed successfully.
>
> I am pretty sure from hardware point of view because Ltib rootfs is working fine with this board.
>
> Any replies would be appreciable.

What's your hardware target?  There is a bug #1767 that can
make the system always reset the clock to the saved timestamp
on boot.  This is probably what's happening to you.

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