strange problem with system time

lwj wayne at zkcelltest.com
Wed Apr 14 21:29:39 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:35, James Lemke wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:20, duncan brown wrote:
> > does this happen with any other o/s installed?
> Dunno.  I've never installed anything on this machine before.
> 
> > did you set your time zone improperly?  ntpd may be changing the time on
> > boot, did you disable it, set the time and then reboot?  (chkconfig
> > --level 12345 ntpd off)
> I tried two different time zone settings for EDT -- Toronto and NYC.  No
> difference.  No difference with ntpd running or not.
> 
> This happens while the machine is running, not at boot.  At boot the
> time is always correct as it is read from the CMOS clock.
> 
> > is your cmos battery getting flakey?
> I don't think so because the h/w clock keeps the correct time.
> 
> Thanks for the thoughts.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Lemke   jim at TheLemkes.ca   Orillia, Ontario   FWD# M:245401 H:246889
> 1992 ST1100, STOC #3750   COG #2637
> Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

It might have something to do with clock drift compensation. I ran into
this problem once with Gentoo (I set the hardware clock to UTC and
adjusted the time a few times before I fixed it.) I found some things
that were supposed to fix it. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it
was. 





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