Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:55:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher W. Aiken"
Message-ID:
Subject: Re: [SLE] Clock problem
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Greg Thomas wrote:
-|On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Landy Roman wrote:
-|
-|> > Every once in awhile my clock jumps backwards 8 hours. I recall seeing
-|> > similar problems mentioned before but could not find them in the e-mail
-|> > archives.
-|> >
-|> > Where do I start looking to troubleshoot this problem?
-|> >
-|> you hardware clock might be incorrect find 2 pgms netdate and hwclock and run this script
-|>
-|
-|I'm still having this problem. To recap my hardware clock is set to
-|localtime, I'm in Pacific Standard Time, and in yast I have set the
-|timezone and that my hardware clock is set to localtime.
-|
-|Any more ideas?
-|
-|Thanks, Greg
Eight hours? Isn't Pacific time equal to GMT-8 ? Try setting your
hardware clock to GMT, i.e local time +8. If your hardware
clock is set to GMT and you have the correct TZ set, Linux should
automatically get the right time and correct for time changes such
as daylight savings time.
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux