On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Greg Thomas wrote:
-|On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Landy Roman wrote: -| -|> > Every once in awhile my clock jumps backwards 8 hours. I recall seeing -|> > similar problems mentioned before but could not find them in the e-mail -|> > archives. -|> > -|> > Where do I start looking to troubleshoot this problem? -|> > -|> you hardware clock might be incorrect find 2 pgms netdate and hwclock and run this script -|> -| -|I'm still having this problem. To recap my hardware clock is set to -|localtime, I'm in Pacific Standard Time, and in yast I have set the -|timezone and that my hardware clock is set to localtime. -| -|Any more ideas? -| -|Thanks, Greg
Eight hours? Isn't Pacific time equal to GMT-8 ? Try setting your hardware clock to GMT, i.e local time +8. If your hardware clock is set to GMT and you have the correct TZ set, Linux should automatically get the right time and correct for time changes such as daylight savings time.
--- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux
-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq Okay I set the clock to +8 i.e., cmos clock, and that was
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:57:20 +0800
From: Robert Sweet