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Edward Cheadle

25 Jun 2001 25 Jun '01

22:05

Anyone have any idea why the time won't stay set? I'm using 7.2 and KDE. I've tried GMT and localtime. The timezone is MDT. I set the time, turn off the machine and it wrong again. It happens on two different machines with different processors and motherboards. Everytime I log on I double click on the clock, log into it as su and then set the time.

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wilson＠claborn.net

26 Jun 26 Jun

04:14

At 04:05 PM 6/25/2001 -0600, you wrote:

Anyone have any idea why the time won't stay set? I'm using 7.2 and KDE. I've tried GMT and localtime. The timezone is MDT. I set the time, turn off the machine and it wrong again. It happens on two different machines with different processors and motherboards.

This doesn't answer "what's wrong", but should be a good temporary fix: /sbin/hwclock --systohc Sets the hardware clock to match the RTC (which is probably what's getting set and lost).

Everytime I log on I double click on the clock, log into it as su and then set the time.

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Eddie Howson

07:07

On Monday 25 June 2001 11:05 pm, Edward Cheadle wrote:

Anyone have any idea why the time won't stay set? I'm using 7.2 and KDE. I've tried GMT and localtime. The timezone is MDT. I set the time, turn off the machine and it wrong again. It happens on two different machines with different processors and motherboards.

Everytime I log on I double click on the clock, log into it as su and then set the time.

I had similar problems with getting the time right and setting the clock. Eventually, I used the "Set time zone" option under System Administration of yast1. That worked for me both on my home system and the system in my office. Hope that helps. Eddie

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Bob Collins

15:59

This is the answer to the Time Problem I had with 7.1. See attachment time.txt. -- Regards, Bob Collins Mind is the Master-power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes, The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:-- He thinks in secret and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking glass. --James Allen

From - Tue Jun 26 09:56:40 2001 Return-Path: Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by perth.fpcc.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23182 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:03:41 -0600 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A201E4FA for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:03:06 +0200 (MEST) From: SuSE Support To: bcollins@fpcc.net Subject: Ticket [20010530000000191] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20010601150302.5722298B1@neon.hb.suse.de> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:03:02 +0200 (CEST) Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 9001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 3ab41b47000018ec

Dear Mr. Collins, Many thanks for your enquiry to SuSE Installation Support. Your problems, or similar ones, are familiar to us. This is why I am including an article from our Support Database providing you with a tried-and-tested solution. You can make use of this database on your own, at any time. Just take a look at: http://sdb.suse.de/en/. I found the following article, for example, by searching for the keyword "TIME". Title: After booting the system clock is set wrong http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mjb_wrong_time_71.html _______________________________________________________ Applies to SuSE Linux: Version 7.1 Symptom: All settings regarding the system clock are set correctly. But the clock does get set incorrectly at every system boot. (There is no general rule about how much the time is differing because this depends on your timezone.) Cause: You have used a separate partition for /usr. To set the system clock correctly, some files from /usr/lib/ are needed. Due to an error in a boot script these are not yet available when the system clock gets set. Solution: Install the following update using YaST or YaST2: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/aaa_base.r pm In some cases you have to delete the file /etc/adjtime. Starting from the next boot of the system the time should get set correctly. 1. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/aaa_base.rpm Best regards Your SuSE Support-Team Rainer Preschke (support@suse.de) ------------------------------------------------------------ SuSE GmbH, Tel: +49-421-5262300 Mo-Fr 13-18.00 Schanzaeckerstr. 10, Fax: +49-421-5262350 90443 Nuernberg, Email: support@suse.de Germany WWW: http://support.suse.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------

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Nick Zentena

14:10

On June 26, 2001 03:59 pm, Bob Collins wrote:

This is the answer to the Time Problem I had with 7.1. See attachment time.txt.

I've got two different machines running 7.1. With I think all the updates. The problem on this one was that yast would stick something like Canada/Eastern into the timezone setting for rc.config. I edited it so it only said Eastern and it works fine. Funny thing is the other machine says EST. The country code screws up things. Nick

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dizzy

12:05

Hello I dont know if it has to be this complicated, but I had some serious time problems with my machine. Using 7.1 This is what I did setup a ntp timeserver cron job to set the system time time.sh /usr/sbin/ntpdate ip.of.time.server I set the system time via the script then run hwclock -w (set the hwclock to the system time) reboot run date run hwclock they both should match Look at your logs for consistency of time settings everything should be ok. Again I dont think it has to be this complicated but I had to do it <grin> rob Edward Cheadle wrote:

Anyone have any idea why the time won't stay set? I'm using 7.2 and KDE. I've tried GMT and localtime. The timezone is MDT. I set the time, turn off the machine and it wrong again. It happens on two different machines with different processors and motherboards.

Everytime I log on I double click on the clock, log into it as su and then set the time.

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