do you have apm installed?? i had it on my laptop, and it would restore the time in gmt, which was about 5 hours off. it took me a while to figure it out. it was kinda a stupid thing. maybe that is it, maybe its not. sure sounds weird if its not. if you think its cron, go into /var/messages and check the cron logs and see if its running ntpdate. is xntpd running? possibly you have it syncing with a ntp server and your timezone is off. just a thought.
Jason > > Hi all, > > I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting > unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an > older hard disk > without problem. > > Basically, I logoff from the Internet overnight and in the > morning find > the machine showing the early hours as the time. Today at midday I got > to it and it claimed it was around 3am. This is clearly wrong. > > If I leave the network connection up overnight, the clock is fine the > next day. In fact, if I bring down the net connection during the day, > the clock eventually gets set to the early hours again. This is > puzzelling. > > I'm thinking that somewhere there is a cron job to set the time using > NTP and when no NTP servers are found the clock may be getting set to > midnight, only I can't find it. I have ntpdate installed and > have to use > it immediately when I come online in the morning else logs will be > screwed obviously. > > Any ideas where I can remove this entry? I have a pretty > standard setup, > very little non-debian software components installed. It's driving me > mad :( > > Regards, > > James Green > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
