daytime service

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> Been awhile since I had to mess with this but I seem to remember there
> was a bios clock setting on some systems.  Maybe the newer systems don't
> have this but it sounds to me as if when you boot your system the system
> clock is being set from the hardware clock.  If that is off (different
> timezone or does/doesn't have DST set) then your system would startup
> with the wrong time.  

I guess you missed the earlier part of the thread. Doing the following
from system-config-time appears to fix this issue:

diable-ntpd;set-correct-time;enable-ntpd 

> If it is to far off then ntp will not correct it. 

Actually mine was off by 12:hours - and ntpd was correcting
it. (suspend/resume was pushing it back again by 12hours)

> Check if your system has such a setting in the bios.  If you can get
> that close enough then ntp should be able to take that time and adjust
> the drift.

After the fix - all times appear to be the same (not sure what the states
were before the fix):
- bios time
- WinXP
- FC3

Satish