On Wednesday 22 October 2008 02:04:56 am David C. Rankin wrote:
Bob S wrote:
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 04:40:36 am David C. Rankin wrote:
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Bob,
Is the box a dual-boot box with windows installed? Are you GMT+-4 in your timezone?
Yes and yes (EDT) but I haven't booted windoze in over a year. See my reply to Ingolf.
Bob S
Well,
Regardless, if you will ever boot windows, then you need to set your hwclock to localtime and not UTC. In Yast -> Date & Time when the map is displayed, look in the lower left corner and there is a check box "Hardware Clock set to UTC". Make sure that the box is not checked --or-- checked if it isn't checked on your system. On my single boot box with hwclock set to UTC, there is no check in that box (rather counterintuitive really) However, my date and date -u show correct time for central zone:
00:53 alchemy~/linux/scripts> date Wed Oct 22 00:55:08 CDT 2008 00:55 alchemy~/linux/scripts> date -u Wed Oct 22 05:55:09 UTC 2008
I noticed that if I did check the box, the time was set 5 hours in the past. In essence, applying the offset twice. A good test is just to set your system clock by hand and make sure it works right. As root, set the time with:
date MMDDHHMMCCYY.ss (example # date 102201022008.00)
Then look at how your systems is handling time:
date date -u Which is right?
If you are still 4 hours in the past, then set the time with "date -u" to specify you are setting time in UTC. Do the same test with date and date -u.
Hi David, Well, I went into Yast and set 10.3 to UTC. (Checked the lttle box and reset the time after I updated with NTP. That seems like kind of a hack to me though because I have to reset the other OS's also. I run three beside Windoz just to play with them. They were fine, as well as was 10.3 until something happened to 10.3 that kept making it lose 4 hours at every reboot. I've rebooted twice since the change and it appears to be keeping time properly. We will see. This is indeed a strange occurence. If I am not mistaken this seems to have happened about the time of the last kernel update. The update screwed up my nvidia card/driver which I have to investigate next. Think it could have been the kernel? Remembering now, that the other OS's weren't effected. What will happen if I boot Windoz? Will just the time in Windoz be wrong, or will it do something to the system clock? Thanks David, Carlos, and to everybody, and there were many of you, offering advice and tips. Much appreciated. We will see what happens. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org