First of all, I *have* read Carlos Ronbinson's howto numerous times. I cannot get my system clock and the KDE clock in the corner of the screen to show the same time. I've tried more combinations of things than I can recall. They always show a 12 hour difference. For example: rm /etc/adjtime date --set=07:30 *hwclock --systohc sets the system clock to 7:30 local time, but the KDE clock immediately jumps 12 hours ahead. BTW, the KDE display is also set to local time. My email goes out at the proper time in this mode. Then, if I bring up the 'adjust time' screen for the KDE clock and hit "cancel", the KDE clock shows the proper local time, and the system time drops back 12 hours. I'm tearing my hair out over this. Can anyone help? BTW, this is only happening on one box on my network. Jim Can * -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 07:33 -0500, Jim Sabatke wrote:
First of all, I *have* read Carlos Ronbinson's howto numerous times.
I cannot get my system clock and the KDE clock in the corner of the screen to show the same time. I've tried more combinations of things than I can recall. They always show a 12 hour difference. For example:
rm /etc/adjtime date --set=07:30 *hwclock --systohc
sets the system clock to 7:30 local time, but the KDE clock immediately jumps 12 hours ahead. BTW, the KDE display is also set to local time. My email goes out at the proper time in this mode.
The fact that it's 12 hours exactly seems to indicate that it's a am/pm problem. I'm pretty sure that date expects a 24h time, so 7:30 is am, and 7.30pm is given as 19:30 Could this be the problem? By the way, the easiest way to set the correct time is to use ntp. Find an ntp server close to you and do ntpdate <server> to synchronise -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 07:33 -0500, Jim Sabatke wrote:
First of all, I *have* read Carlos Ronbinson's howto numerous times.
I cannot get my system clock and the KDE clock in the corner of the screen to show the same time. I've tried more combinations of things than I can recall. They always show a 12 hour difference. For example:
rm /etc/adjtime date --set=07:30 *hwclock --systohc
sets the system clock to 7:30 local time, but the KDE clock immediately jumps 12 hours ahead. BTW, the KDE display is also set to local time. My email goes out at the proper time in this mode.
The fact that it's 12 hours exactly seems to indicate that it's a am/pm problem. I'm pretty sure that date expects a 24h time, so 7:30 is am, and 7.30pm is given as 19:30
Could this be the problem?
By the way, the easiest way to set the correct time is to use ntp. Find an ntp server close to you and do
ntpdate <server>
to synchronise
OK, I started the date synch daemon and rebooted. The box started up with the correct time in the KDE clock. I then typed 'date', which should just display the date, and two things happened: 1. It displayed the correct date 2. The KDE clock jumped 12 hours ahead. BTW, this is SuSE 9.0. I have no clue what is going on here. Just displaying a date shouldn't change anything. Jim -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 07:33 -0500, Jim Sabatke wrote:
First of all, I *have* read Carlos Ronbinson's howto numerous times.
I cannot get my system clock and the KDE clock in the corner of the screen to show the same time. I've tried more combinations of things than I can recall. They always show a 12 hour difference. For example:
rm /etc/adjtime date --set=07:30 *hwclock --systohc
sets the system clock to 7:30 local time, but the KDE clock immediately jumps 12 hours ahead. BTW, the KDE display is also set to local time. My email goes out at the proper time in this mode.
The fact that it's 12 hours exactly seems to indicate that it's a am/pm problem. I'm pretty sure that date expects a 24h time, so 7:30 is am, and 7.30pm is given as 19:30
Could this be the problem?
By the way, the easiest way to set the correct time is to use ntp. Find an ntp server close to you and do
ntpdate <server>
to synchronise
Actually, I'm using a '0' to set it to the morning at 07:30. The strangest thing is, if I bring up the KDE (Yast) set time for the little corner clock, it shows the 'correct' time fo 07:30 and even an abort with 'cancel' sets the display clock to the correct time. Unfortunately, it also sets the system time to 12 hours ahead. I am going to try the ntp server solution and see if that works for me. Otherwise, there seems to be something very strange going on with this box. Thanks, Jim -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Jim Sabatke wrote:
First of all, I *have* read Carlos Ronbinson's howto numerous times.
I cannot get my system clock and the KDE clock in the corner of the screen to show the same time. I've tried more combinations of things than I can recall. They always show a 12 hour difference. For example:
The time I see attached to your message is: 2006-08-04 13:33 and on your subsequent message it is: 2006-08-05 01:54 So both the month and day are wrong as well as the hour! Cheers, Dave -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-08-04 at 07:33 -0500, Jim Sabatke wrote:
First of all, I *have* read Carlos Ronbinson's howto numerous times.
Tks :-)
I cannot get my system clock and the KDE clock in the corner of the screen to show the same time. I've tried more combinations of things than I can recall. They always show a 12 hour difference. For example:
rm /etc/adjtime date --set=07:30 *hwclock --systohc
Well, actually, the adjtime file should be deleted last thing, but I don't think it is of consequence for your particular problem. It might be a problem for next boot up, though.
sets the system clock to 7:30 local time, but the KDE clock immediately jumps 12 hours ahead. BTW, the KDE display is also set to local time. My email goes out at the proper time in this mode.
Then, if I bring up the 'adjust time' screen for the KDE clock and hit "cancel", the KDE clock shows the proper local time, and the system time drops back 12 hours.
I'm tearing my hair out over this. Can anyone help?
Very weird :-( I'd concentrate on having the system clock correct. I would do that before login in into kde, for example, in text mode in the console. I would also check again yast time configuration, and finally, start up kde. Posibly, just posibly, kde gets confused if you change system time at mid-session. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFErRfhtTMYHG2NR9URAs92AJ9hpItPN+ShSlkpvhqFiSiRz3mBuQCfdgI0 pWh1ZcTzoapuxmXJP7BNpzg= =4Dbq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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