Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-25 Thread stuart
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:48:23PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Charles Trois wrote: > > ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime -> > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris > > > > and in /etc/conf.d/clock: > > > > CLOCK="local" > > Did you maybe chan

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Charles Trois wrote: > ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime -> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris > > and in /etc/conf.d/clock: > > CLOCK="local" Did you maybe change this last one after your last reboot? Because then the system time won't have chan

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Trois
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but "date" keeps returning GMT + 2. Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does 'hwclock --show --debu

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Persson
On November 18, 2005 02:14 pm Benno Schulenberg was like: > Your time zone is correctly set? > Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. I think the problem was a corrupt /etc/localtime. When I set up the system I made /etc/localtime a symlink, but SOMETHING seemed to have changed that and replaced it

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Charles Trois wrote: > The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is > GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but "date" > keeps returning GMT + 2. Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does 'hwclock --show --debug' say? Look for the line s

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/21/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too have a clock problem (the time returned by "date" being one hour > fast), and I have been fiddling with "hwclock" without finding the right > way. When I saw the above post, I thought that it gave me the answer, > and tried to apply it,

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Micheals
i am having that same problem also. On 11/21/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benno Schulenberg a écrit : > I too have a clock problem (the time returned by "date" being one hour > fast), and I have been fiddling with "hwclock" without finding the right > way. When I saw the above po

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Trois
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Your hardware clock is supposed to be at UTC? Check with 'grep CLOCK= /etc/conf.d/clock'. Your time zone is correctly set? Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. If those are okay, do: rm /etc/adjtime hwclock --set --utc --date="2005-11-18 21:34" # example time

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Also, the KDE clock has a (IMO a very annoying) "feature" that will > change the timezone it displays in response to the scroll wheel. So I never knew of that feature till you just mentioned it. I think that's pretty cool! John --

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/05, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Persson wrote: > > For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I > > am on UTC rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am > > on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future. > > > > Now it is g

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Robert Persson wrote: > For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I > am on UTC rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am > on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future. > > Now it is getting even weirder because I find that when I boot up > and enter kde

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
Another solution if you are having ntpd problems, is to use this command from a crontab: ntpdate -b time.nist.gov stop ntpd before that On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Robert Persson wrote: A week or two back I reset my system clock temporarily to 2001 in order to install a package under wine with a ti