Yes - it was me. There is no access to the hardware clock via the bios on my
Toshiba Satellite Pro. Several people sent answers, but the bottom line was as
follows:
Preferred: Set the hardware clock in the bios if you can
Otherwise use 'hwclock --set' option
In both cases you will then need to execute 'hwclock --hctosys' to sync the
system clock to the hardware clock. (I suppose you could reboot if you
wanted...)
Note that in both cases the it is a double dash for the option.
You can get full details (well terse details) from the man page - 'man
hwclock'
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Clausen"
To: "Garen Parham"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Can't get SuSE/Linux to set the time correctly.
| On Wednesday 04 April 2001 03:46, you wrote:
| > Since upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 my system never seems to be able to set the
| > time properly. It's fine in the BIOS, and worked perfectly with
| > 7.0/2.2.16, but now with 7.1/2.2.18 it's always hours off. I've tried
| > every combination via yast1 I can think of (e.g. "America/Los Angeles",
| > PST, PDT, GMT-8, all tried with BIOS uses "Local Time" or "GMT") and it is
| > /still/ off by 4-8hours depending on which combo I try.
| >
|
| Me too! (Only two hours but still)
|
| This subject was dealt with some time ago on the list. Unfortunately I didn't
| pay much attention to it at the time (I was stil using 6.4 then). But I seem
| to remember some solution being presented (?)
|
| Does anyone still have it laying around in their mail?
|
| It read like a genuine fix, not a workaround...
|
| hwclock or something?
|
| Or maybe someone remembers *when* this topic was up, so we may find it in the
| archives?
|
| Jon
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