[K12OSN] time stopped

Rob Owens robowens at myway.com
Mon Feb 14 19:42:34 UTC 2005


Are you by any chance running ntpd?  This is a daemon that is supposed to sync you up w/ time servers on the internet.  If you set the wrong time manually, it may be that ntpd is slowing down your clock to sync you up to the correct time.

-Rob


 --- On Mon 02/14, Lee Harr < missive at hotmail.com > wrote:
From: Lee Harr [mailto: missive at hotmail.com]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:56:57 +0430
Subject: [K12OSN] time stopped

I was trying to set the time...<br><br>[lee at loftern ~]$ date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:11:57 EST 2005<br>[lee at loftern ~]$ su<br>Password:<br>[root at loftern lee]# date -s 14:20<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:00 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:00 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:00 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:01 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:02 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:01 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:02 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:02 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# man date<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:03 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:02 EST 2005<br>[root at loftern lee]# date<br>Mon Feb 14 14:20:03 EST 2005<br><br><br>It's about 10 minutes later and we're up to about 14:20:05.<br><br>What's going on here?<br><br>____________________________________________________!
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