On Monday 21 April 2003 07:05 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.04.21 at 09:43, John wrote:
The suse way works very well if you just uses suse linux all the time, but not so well if you double boot, or if you change the system time without paying attention to the hardware clock.
I don't think that's completely correct Carlos. On my machine, dual-booting (actually, SuSE 8.2,8.0, and W98SE), my clock has always worked fine. My friends system, who dual-boots also with SuSE 8.0 and W98SE, goes whacko every once in a while with the time, so I figure, it's got to be something with the hardware or the BIOS, *not* the SuSE software.
Mmmm... yes and no. There is nothing wrong with suse software (ie, the scripts); what I mean is, that if misused, the clock may go way off track. I also double boot to windows, and at least once the clock went off by one or two hours. But after I noticed how suse scripts are adjusting the clock, that doesn't happen - so far :-)
I think... I remember once when windows changed from summer saving time to winter or vice versa, and when I was back in Linux, I noticed the time was one hour off; I adjusted it, probably using the gadget in kde: then it is when I threw the clock off its tracks.
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No, I don't think is the hardware, nor the software: It is the user ;-)
It is explained somewhere on the suse SDB. What I understand is - more or less -, that if you change, say, your system clock one hour fast (but only system time, not hardware time) when the computer is halted, the halt script notes the difference of one hour, and will save on the adjustment file that the clock is slow by, say, one hour every day: so the boot script will make the adjustment automatically when you boot up.
That is the idea, but of course, thinking that you want to compensate seconds or minutes at the most, and that you had set it to the exact time and seconds the first time.
If you - we :-) - are not doing that, it is better that we delete the adjustment file to disable the automatics, at least for this once.
Then, if you use xntp or similar, or even the radio, the adjustment will be made with exactitude, and the scripts will work as expected.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Heh, makes a lot more sense than what I had to say about it! LOL. At least it got us to 'thinking' more about it and someone (you) figured it out pretty much. Man, but I love the people who use Linux...the air-heads are so few and far between as to be almost non-existant! Be good and take care, John -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.