On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:50, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Thursday 09 December 2004 10:20 am, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
James - Before I could do much with NTP, I booted up this morning to find yet another new date and time on my system. I'm puzzled as to what could be causing this. Each time, I go into YaST under "clock and time zone configuration" and re-set everything, only to have it boot with incorrect time and date at the next boot-up.
I remember from the ancient days of DOS that a similar behavior was due to a need to replace a battery on the motherboard. Could this also be a hardware issue? It's a P4 2.8 Ghz and only 12 months old.
TIA Kelly Morris
Another thing to check is localtime vs UTC in YaST, System, Date & Time. IF you have multi-boot and boot into Windows most systems require that you use localtime to keep the system time consistent between Windows and Linux boots. This is very true on my system even if I never boot to Windows these days. All I have to do is boot Windows once a year and my clock is off IF I don't have YaST set to localtime. On other systems it does not seem to make a difference. Just another thing to check and YMMV.
Stan
Stan - This is good to know. I always set to local time (I think). I have two hard drives and dual boot system with Windoze XP SP2. I'll make a special effort to be careful about setting in local time. Thanks. Kelly