Nick Rout wrote:
delete the contents of /etc/adjtime
this file contains data that the kernel uses to keep track of time, it
compensates for a slow/fast system clock tick.
If this file gets stuffed up then the kernel over compensates for what
it perceives to be a way out clock, and all hell breaks loose.
So try clearing it out and see if that works better (it will be
re-written with something sensible sooner or later)
If On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 07:55 -0700, Rob wrote:
rob3 wrote:
David D. Rea wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said:
I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo
problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or
has it now.
I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a
brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead
already. Windoze shows the same behavior.
Thanks, Rob
Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more
or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock
to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and
Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each
other??
Dave
I don't know. Dell support gave me a patch to the bios, so I will see
in the next day or so if it is bios, or OS issue.\
Thanks! Rob
Hi !!
No, the hour changes and the minutes change.
Rob.
Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that
solved the problem CLOCK="local". This does not appear in the Gentoo
manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted
a doc bug report, so that no one else gets bit with this.
Rob.
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