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[rsweet@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Sweet)]

Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:57:20 +0800
From: Robert Sweet <rsweet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20001123125720.A1341@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Clock problem



On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 01:55:21PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ---                                   
> Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
> chris at cwaiken dot com,   www.cwaiken.com
> Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux
> 
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Okay I set the clock to +8 i.e., cmos clock, and that was
the wrong way. Then I set it to -8 of local time and set the
time zone to GMT -8 and now the time is correct. Now to see
if it keeps the time. XNTPD keeps dying. We'll keep you
posted in the next 24 hours.


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