Fedora Time Bug

The question of setting time comes up frequently. Setting the timezone and the system clock can be confusing, particularly if the machine is dual boot. Nowadays I don't see too many of those (a sign that Linux has grown up enough or just that it's cheap enough to run separate machines?), so the answer is usually simple: set the hardware clock to UTC, run ntpd and set your timezone correctly. But for those who want to understand how everything works, http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html is also a useful summary. So when a local reseller called recently saying he couldn't get a Fedora Core 4 box to hold time upon reboot, I assumed he just didn't have things set right and referred him to the docs. I was wrong. The next thing I heard from the reseller was that he had found a fix. Apparently there is a current bug with some Intel motherboards: All is working fine now. I think the only problem is that when daylight savings hits, the customer will have to update the bios and the Linux date separately. *Originally published at