-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-03-26 at 22:05 -0500, J. Scott Thayer wrote:
My problem is number 2.
Ough :-(
I also just went to a console via Cntrl-Alt F2, ran date and got the same result as showing in the KDE applet. This way I was fully out of KDE and X yet no change in the issue. I believe it IS a kernel problem but the kernel gurus have not identified it (they HAVE looked).
Bad luck :-/ I can tell you some "hacks" that might work. If you have a permanent network connection, you can set up ntp client, and that will discipline the system clock - provided the clock drift is fairly constant and within limits (and I don't know how tolerant are those limits). Otherwise, you can setup a cron job that set up the clock periodically before it drifts too much. Again, if you have a permanent network connection, I'd call "rcxntpd ntptimeset" periodically, with an interval calculated to make the drift not bigger than a second or two (however, cronjobs can not be called oftener than one per minute). The command "rcxntpd ntptimeset" will call /usr/sbin/ntpdate. If the error is less than 0.5 seconds, it will adjust the clock slowly (slew). If the error is bigger, it will "step" the clock, ie, set it up on time abruptly (wich might be bad for some programs, like the X server, for instance). Finally, if you don't have a permanent network connection, you can set up the cron job to call instead "hwclock --hctosys --noadjfile". Try out the command first on an xterm; if the time is incorrect, and your CMOS clock (the bios) keeps UTC (aka GMT) time, add "--utc" to the command above. Otherwise, if it keeps localtime, add "--localtime". I added --noadjfile to make it ignore the /etc/adjfile file, because it will contain wrong data. However, if you think you can correct it by hand, do it, of course, and remove that option. I can not tell you how to calculate the correct value, however: but you might look up the source code and learn it - and then tell me, I'd like to know ;-) HTH. Further reading: man hwclock file:///usr/share/doc/packages/xntp-doc/html/ntpdate.html http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/howto/time.html - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEKDo1tTMYHG2NR9URAuITAJ9BC0WPe0DbUSK/eHIFy2T+i50yQACfSI4X qPhcCY6KRIT8KShftNt5kPA= =niTN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----