John Sowden
in Suse 8.0, I have noticed that the time gets off by months, even once by years. I can fix it in ms-dos (dual boot) and it works fine.
now i notice on booting that linux hangs on the real time clock entry for about a minute before it continues, no warning message, etc. thoughts?
-- John Sowden
---<sig line trimmed>--- Hi John, I am running dual boot also. What I do is go into M$ and roughhly adjust the time using their control system. (I had to do it for daylight savings time.) Then I go back into Linux, and open up a link to an offiical time site (eg: http://www.time.gov/ ) and then set the time off the command line as root, eg: "date --set 14:55:25" the above will set the system time to 14:55:25; then I do: "hwclock --systohc" so that system time is copied to the cmos chip; and then do: "rm /etc/adjtime" (all w/o quotes) so time adjusting scripts don't think that the clock was slow or fast, and repeat the adjustment automatically on boot. This question is often asked. See for a longer explaination Carlos' post: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Nov/0001.html Hope this helps, Gar -- Age is a very high price to pay for wisdom -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp