The Saturday 2004-09-18 at 23:24 -0300, Marcos Lazarini wrote:
You can find my writeup on how suse handles the clock in the unofficial suse faq, howtos section.
I don't want to create controversy, but to me this seems wrong - someone running suse in a dual-boot computer (e.g. trial period, with windows) would get clock synchronization problems (unless he uses ntp on both systems). A starting user, and he will have one more 'barrier' to cross, one more problem to solve. Should this be (at least) the opposite?
(The long explanation is where I said above, or in this list archive sometime ago) No, there is no problem except: you manually set up the time when inside linux and forget to delete the adjtime file and/or to adjust the CMOS clock at the same time. It usually happens when touching the clock with kde. Remember that Linux is unix type, and you are not supposed to meddle with such things as the clock, unless you are root, and you are root if you know your stuff :-p Also, there may be problems if you use ntp and dual boot, because windows is not so strict with the clock handling as is linux, and may unset it out of syncronism. Not in all cases, any way, or the list would be full of complaints of users with bad clocks :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson