On Sat March 4 2006 12:03 pm, John Moore wrote:
I have SuSE 10.0 running at work and at home and it works great. Except I cannot -- either through the applet at the top of the screen or through YAST -- get SuSE to do the time right. I set the correct time and date and click Apply it doesn't stick. I even tried rebooting -- something you usually don't have to do -- but it made no difference. Sigh. Currently my time is correct but the date reads March 4 (should be April 3).
I run Gnome so I am thinking this could be a Gnome bug. Any suggestions?
John Moore Manager, IS Quality Care for Children Atlanta, GA
John, I was having similar problems with SuSE 10.0 on my laptop. Simply would not maintain the settings. Here's how I finally got the date and time to maintain the correct settings. 1) shut down computer 2) boot up into BIOS 3) Set time and date in BIOS, save settings and exit 4) Boot the machine and open YAST/System/Date&Time 5) Make sure system clock setting is UTC 6) On another computer open the webpage: http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java 7) On the first computer set the clock to correct time that you got from the website in step 6 (or close to it) 8) Exit YAST cleanly 9) Open a terminal, become root, adjust the time on your desktop clock by typing: ntpdate time.uh.edu 10) Still in the terminal, type: hwclock --systohc rm /etc/adjtime 11) Exit the terminal. That should do it. My laptop has been rock-steady on time and date ever since I did this. Hope it helps. Gil