On Thursday 04 December 2003 06:44 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wed December 3 2003 10:38 pm, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
Bill Wisse wrote:
Hi
I had ( and maybe have) a problem with the time on my SuSE 9.0 box. The time is just wrong and I cannot change it ( it won't accept my changes). Went to the data base for assistance and found an article http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/06/bjacke_hwclock.html Did what was suggested , the time changed ( don't know yet what it will be after a reboot). However there is one sentence in this art. what sort of puzzles me :
In order to maintain the time as precise as possible, this procedure shall be repeated several times the week after at the soonest.
Any Idea?
I have had the same problem with SuSE 9.0. It seems that no matter I how I set "localtime" and set the time via netdate on the internet at bootup it always goes to UTC time. So, if I reboot several times the "date" becomes days behind.
I have wriiten SuSE's Support about this issue and NO HELP! And this may be my last SuSE version. On 9.0 I have had more problems than on any other SuSE distros. Like "time" and my Palm device not being seen. However, hwinfo, /proc and "lsusb" does see it
I did dig around in /etc/init.d and found the problem (at least I think so) in /etc/init.d/boot.clock (as I remember). It was a problem with "date -u"
Have none of you ever heard of NTP? I set my watch by my computer whereas I used to use WWV....
NTP is very easy to set up on SUSE. If you want my /etc/ntp.conf file I'll be glad to send it. That's the only thing you need to change once ntpd is installed.
When I reboot my time is always five minutes off. I want your /etc/ntp.conf file. Thanks, Jerome