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2009/3/14 James Knott
vsu wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2009-03-15 at 00:06 +0800, vsu wrote:
I have a new installed opensuse 11.1, and when I boot my opensuse, the time displays the wrong time. and I have to correct it. I really dunnt want to see my days past that fast...
Describe "wrong time". Is it wrong after boot by a fixed amount, and after correction it stays good till next boot? How much is it wrong? Or does it run fast, or slow, and by what amount?
Please give details.
Particularly, is it off by the difference between your local time and GMT? If so, you made a configuration error when you chose your hardware clock error.
I did not have internet connecting in my opensuse, so it should not be able to know the GMT. 11.1 would process about 12 hours or less after each time I booted into it. and it would change the BIOS time. I think the post here got the same problem: http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/409256-time-set-incorrectly-bo...
When you install Linux, you're given the choice of setting your hardware clock to UTC or local time. Windows requires local time. If you select UTC, but actually use local time, your clock will be off by the difference from UTC. You do not require an internet connection to have this error. If you choose GMT Linux will add an offset to the hardware clock time to display local time. If you chose GMT and the hardware is local time, that offset will cause your clock to be off by the difference between GMT & local time.
Yup, telling Linux to use UTC and dual booting with Windows would cause this, either uncheck the UTC option in "yast timezone" or keep UTC and drop Windows :p
BTW, GMT used to refer to the "official" clock, but that use has been replaced by UTC. GMT is very slightly off from UTC and it's best to simply consider GMT as a time zone, for the purposes of offset calculation.
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