Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Jerome Lyles <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 06:44 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wed December 3 2003 10:38 pm, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
> > Bill Wisse wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I had ( and maybe have) a problem with the time on my SuSE 9.0 box.
> > > The time is just wrong and I cannot change it ( it won't accept my
> > > changes). Went to the data base for assistance and found an article
> > > http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/06/bjacke_hwclock.html
> > > Did what was suggested , the time changed ( don't know yet what it will
> > > be after a reboot).
> > > However there is one sentence in this art. what sort of puzzles me :
> > >
> > > In order to maintain the time as precise as possible, this procedure
> > > shall be repeated several times the week after at the soonest.
> > >
> > > Any Idea?
> >
> > I have had the same problem with SuSE 9.0.  It seems that no matter I how
> > I set "localtime" and set the time via netdate on the internet at bootup
> > it always goes to UTC time.  So, if I reboot several times the "date"
> > becomes days behind.
> >
> > I have wriiten SuSE's Support about this issue and NO HELP!  And this may
> > be my last SuSE version.  On 9.0 I have had more problems than on any
> > other SuSE distros. Like "time" and my Palm device not being seen. 
> > However, hwinfo, /proc and "lsusb" does see it
> >
> > I did dig around in /etc/init.d and found the problem (at least I think
> > so) in /etc/init.d/boot.clock (as I remember). It was a problem with
> > "date -u"
>
> Have none of you ever heard of NTP?    I set my watch by my computer
> whereas I used to use WWV....
>
> NTP is very easy to set up on SUSE.  If you want my /etc/ntp.conf  file
> I'll be glad to send it.  That's the only thing you need to change once
> ntpd is installed.

When I reboot my time is always five minutes off.  I want your /etc/ntp.conf 
file.
Thanks,
Jerome