Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Nick Selby <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that, Keith!

I'll give it a shot.

NIck

At 09:34 AM 5/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:17:47PM +0200, Nick Selby wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've got Suse 8.0  on a HP 5270 notebook with KDE3. Everything seems to be
> > running well but my system clock is going haywire. I found I couldn't set
> > it using the K Control Center, so logged in as root and set the date with
> > the right time. two days ago. Yesterday it had lost an hour - could have
> > been me in my bleary-eyed 2 am state when I set the clock. But today it 
> had
> > lost 6 minutes.
> >
> > Anyone else have this kind of experience or have any advice?
>
> PC clocks are notoriously bad.  Losing 6 minutes in one day is not
> unusual in my experience (losing an hour is).  I use ntp to keep my
> clock updated.  Find some time servers near you, add them to
> /etc/ntp.conf and turn the service on with YaST2.
>
> Best Regards,
> Keith
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