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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