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On Saturday 11 February 2006 23:14, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I think the only thing I'm not clear about here is what is actually in |
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> the hardware clock? If I keep time in UTC then when date tells me 4PM |
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> is the hardware clock holding midnight? (I'm in CA - offset is 8 |
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> hours.) |
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the hardware clock is what you set in your bios. |
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> Can I check this somehow, like going into BIOS? |
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yes, that is exactly where it is sitting. |
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> Right now I've set the clock back to UTC and rebooted. This is what I |
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> see now. It has the 8 hour offset: |
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please don't forget to remove /etc/adjtime if you change settings. |
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In fact, it does not hurt to remove it regularly, especially if you add |
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ntp-client to your default runlevel. |
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> OK, for now anyway this seems to be the solution. I have never run |
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> ntp-client. For whatever reason I've never required it. It seems that |
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> some set of recent updates - ntp or whatever - have now started |
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> requirign that I run it. With this turned on my AMD64 machine is |
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> within a second (the speed at twhich I can hit enter in two |
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> terminals...) of my wife's Gentoo 32-bit machine. |
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some time ago, you installed ntp, and you run it and it was ok. |
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today ntpd is the server daemon, for syncronizing several machines of a |
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network, ntp-client the part, that sets your clock. |
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please run ntp-client and forget ntpd. |
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> Thanks Duncan! As usual your answers are very through and well |
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> written |
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and sometimes he is wrong, but his postings are so long that most people don't |
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bother to search for the errors. |
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