Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3351 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2007-03-16 at 11:23 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get screwy
> between boots. It is usually the time of day more than the date. The
> error seems to be random. Not just the hour. But the minutes as well.

Simple: delete /etc/adjtime.

Actually:

 - set up the clock.
 - check and reset time zone with yast.
 - ensure clock is correct running "date" as root.
 - delete /etc/adjtime


> So, we then tried setting the computer to local time, informing SUSE of
> this. Same problem.

It is not SuSE's problem, it is yours :-p

> I am guessing that the motherboards have some issues. They are all
> rather new and made by SuperMicro. I am not sure if they are all the
> exact same model (I am checking).

If it is from boot to boot, no, nothing there. Just a screwed adjtime 
file.

Look for older messages on this list about this very issue. I have 
explained it many times and I don't have time right now ;-)

The main cause is setting the up clock...

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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