Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:19 pm, Ulf Rasch wrote:

> Guess the time difference between the original time and the new time is
> bigger than time configured for the monitor to go into powersaving mode.
> But could be other reason. Anyway, it is best to use xntp to take care
> of changing system time. It makes the adjustments in small steps that
> otherwise could upset some programs. That works of course only if you
> are connected to the internet.
>
> Ulf

Actually, the way I discovered this involves xntp.  I normally use xntp, but 
when I decided to strip my system to the bare minimum and rebuild the SuSE 10 
installation, I neglected to reinstall xntp.  I noticed it was getting dark 
fairly early, and reasoned that I had not be telaproted north of the artcic 
circle, nor had the Earth undergone a pole shift.  It therefore followed that 
my clock must be wrong.  When I installed xntp, that's when I noticed the 
behavior.  I have an internal server set up so that I /can/ get updates 
without hitting the internet.  That insures that my systems are internally 
synchronized, but I still need a connection to get the ntp server synched up 
with the rest of the world.

Steven