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Drake Donahue wrote: |
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> |
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> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:22 AM |
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> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update? |
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>> Okay, here's something I can't seem to figure out. My laptop time |
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>> doesn't want to stay sync'd. I always run ntpd at boot time to keep |
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>> it in sync, but now, when I boot without an ethernet cable hooked up, |
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>> it's over 5 hours off. It didn't do this until I updated the timezone |
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>> just after Christmas. /etc/conf.d/clock is set to my timezone |
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>> (EST5EDT) and /etc/localtime is symlinked to the correct timezone. |
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>> I thought maybe the BIOS clock was wrong, but it's not 5 hours off, |
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>> maybe a minute or so. I tried setting the HWclock to system time and |
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>> that didn't fix it. Any ideas on what else to try? |
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> Could it be this simple? Quoting: |
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> # /etc/conf.d/clock |
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> # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as |
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> # Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then # |
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> set CLOCK to "local". Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then # |
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> you should set it to "local". |
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> CLOCK="local" |
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Yeah it could very well be. I didn't notice that before, but for some |
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reason this file was changed. It's possible I did it and not realize |
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it, but I was almost certain that I didn't update that file when I ran |
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dispatch-conf. But then again, one of my other personalities might have |
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done it. I'll have to ask around and see which one could have been the |
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perp. Thanks for picking that up. |
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