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On Sunday 16 November 2003 8:03 pm, Charles Kerr wrote:
By chance did you say you have your bios time in UTC or local when you installed (what option did you select) ? Not sure if that could be your problem or not. I have a time deamon, so I am reset to a time server,haven't seen any problem. I also run my bios time in UTC, fyi.
On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:35, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
" Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Sun Nov 16 11:13:33 2003 "
The above message is coming from /var/log/boot.msg. Problem is that something is resetting the BIOS time. This seems to happen at shutdown. I rebooted, called setup and set the date and time. I set it to 19.13.33 Fired up 9.0 and the above message showed up. I am in the US/Central timezone in /etc/sysconfig/clock. This zoneinfo comes from Yast during the install and is correct for this location.
The problem is that the wrong time is sent to the BIOS so at reboot time it shows up as yesterday. The date and time just get progressively wrong.
Anyone noticed this problem. It is easy to see by just typing "date" after setting the bios time -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb "
If you dual boot to Windows at all you MUST set your Linux system to localtime. Otherwise you get strange clock behavior like you describe. If you don't dual boot to Windows then UTC should work fine. Do you have xntp installed and started via xinetd? Do you have proper secondary time servers listed (time.apple.com for example)? Don't use the primary or first level time servers the next level down is good enough. Stan