On my system, I have the hardware clock (via BIOS) set to GMT, I have the
correct zone set under Linux, and I have Linux set to do UTC. I've never
had a problem with my time :)
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've got a box here, redhat 5.2 with all the errata, and a 2.2.18
> kernel but seems to be confused about it's time. For the last 2 days it has
> been more or less randomly jumping the system clock forward 10 hours. This
> makes me think it must be someone sort of time zone confusion becuase it's
> set to be 10 hours ahead of GMT - so maybe for some reason (?!?) it trying
> to 'correct' itself thinking it is GMT so spinning on another 10 hours.
>
> But I can't for the life of me find where these time changes might
> be coming from. :/ Even turning on ps accounting didn't show anything
> useful which suggests it is a long running process that is responsible.
>
> That's a moderatly abysmal attempt at explaining what I'm after so
> I'm not expecting much - but if you've seen something like this or know what
> might be going on I'd love to hear form you.
>
> "* * * * * rdate -s ntp" is not a solution. :)
>
> M.
>
> P.S. It was about a fortnight ago that the errata was installed so an
> update in glibc would seem the sort of thing I should be looking for but why
> the delayed effect?
>
>
--
-Statux
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