# Restarting date when reboot

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/restarting-date-when-reboot/25959>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [August 12, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/restarting-date-when-reboot/25959 "2014-08-12T18:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![andresfer5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@andresfer5](https://forums.suse.com/u/andresfer5)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/restarting-date-when-reboot/25959/1 "2014-08-12T18:49:27Z")

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Hi,

Actually we have a problem with SUSE in our server. When we restart the machine, the date and time changes automatically, and is necessary to change it manually.

Why could this be happenning?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/restarting-date-when-reboot/25959/2 "2014-08-12T18:52:59Z")

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Hi andresfer5,

[QUOTE=andresfer5;23077]Hi,

Actually we have a problem with SUSE in our server. When we restart the machine, the date and time changes automatically, and is necessary to change it manually.

Why could this be happenning?

Thanks[/QUOTE]

could you perhaps be a bit more specific?

Typically, the system reads the time from the hardware clock on boot-up, and can set the hwclock on shutdown. Maybe the latter is not happening, thus you get the server time reset to the one in the RTC chip of the computer?

Regards,  
Jens

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**Author:** ![smflood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/smflood/32/10576_2.png) [@smflood](https://forums.suse.com/u/smflood)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/restarting-date-when-reboot/25959/3 "2014-08-13T15:03:24Z")

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On 12/08/2014 16:54, andresfer5 wrote:  
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> Actually we have a problem with SUSE in our server.[/color]

SUSE is the company who offer several products. By posting in a  
SLES-related forum that suggests you’re actually running SUSE Linux  
Enterprise Server (SLES) but it would help if you could confirm by  
posting the output from “cat /etc/\*release”.

## HTH.

Simon  
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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**Author:** ![andresfer5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@andresfer5](https://forums.suse.com/u/andresfer5)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/restarting-date-when-reboot/25959/4 "2014-08-29T17:36:22Z")

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Hi,

This is the output from cat/etc/\*release:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86\_64)  
VERSION = 11  
PATCHLEVEL = 2  
LSB\_VERSION=“core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-nonarch:core-2.0-x86\_64:core-3.2-x86\_64:core-4.0-x86\_64”

This is a server used to operate SAP Business One version for HANA.