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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:04:01 +0000
Terence Baker
Hi,
Sorry if this has been discussed before, but does anyone have a problem with the clock displaying the wrong time. My clock loses time I reset it approx 24 hours ago and it's lost about 3 hours. On one occasion it actually gained time, but this was one odd occasion. The BIOS battery is new because the motherboard is only a few months old. I've only experienced this once before ona Windows system and it was due to the BIOS battery. It has been discussed. I strongly suggest that you use either ntpdate(1) or xntp (eg. /usr/sbin/ntpd) to keep your date/time current.
I assume that you have DSL (from your email address), so xntp is
probably the best.
You can enable that through YaST. You need to get a couple of ntp
servers and place their addresses in /etc/ntp.conf.
There is a list of public time servers here:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html
You probably want to chose a couple of secondary servers close to you in
your time zone, but not 100% necessary. Your ISP might also have an ntp
server.
Note that when using YaST, ntpdate(1) will be called on boot up.
There are many reasons why your time might be incorrect. make sure the
hardware clock and SuSE Linux are in sync. Check hwclock(8).
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Jerry Feldman