On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:38, Sunny wrote:
James - Before I could do much with NTP, I booted up this morning to find yet another new date and time on my system. I'm puzzled as to what could be causing this. Each time, I go into YaST under "clock and time zone configuration" and re-set everything, only to have it boot with incorrect time and date at the next boot-up.
I remember from the ancient days of DOS that a similar behavior was due to a need to replace a battery on the motherboard. Could this also be a hardware issue? It's a P4 2.8 Ghz and only 12 months old.
TIA Kelly Morris
Kelly, to check if this is hardware issue, check the date/time in your BIOS setup. When you prepare to shutdown for the night, reboot, and hit F2, or Del, or whatever button is for entering the BIOS setup. There you will see the current time set for the system in the CMOS clock. Shutdown. In the morning, before you boot the OS, do it again. If time differs, than for sure this is hardware problem.
Sunny
Sunny - Thanks very much. Will do. Kelly