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On 27 January 2006 17:28, Abhay Kedia wrote: |
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> Hello Everyone, |
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> I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is |
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> happening. |
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> I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I |
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> shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo |
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> sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I |
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> shutdown 4 hours ago at 14:00 hrs and boot at 18:00 hrs, it will still set |
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> the time to 14:00 hrs instead of the correct time. |
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> The CMOS battery is fine. I can say this because if I enter the BIOS (after |
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> 4 hours reboot) it shows the correct time. I start a Live CD, it shows the |
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> correct time as well, but when I start Gentoo it sets the wrong system time |
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> or as mentioned in example: "4 hours back". It writes the time it was |
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> shutdown on, over the BIOS Clock instead of reading from it. How can I |
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> solve it? How can I force Gentoo to read from the BIOS Clock at the time of |
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> boot, instead of writing it. If it helps, here is my /etc/conf.d/clock. |
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> # /etc/conf.d/clock |
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> CLOCK="local" |
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> CLOCK_OPTS="" |
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> CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" (have tried both yes and no) |
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> SRM="no" |
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> ARC="no" |
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Your system has two different clocks, the system clock which is software and |
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the hardware clock which is, well, hardware. After adjusting your system |
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clock with "date" try this: "hwclock -w. Does that solve the problem? |
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If so, you are set. |
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If not so, what is your timezone (in real life)? And what is the timezone in |
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your gentoo setup set to? That is, what is /etc/localtime pointing to? Do |
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they match? |
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Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do the |
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job. |
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> |
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> I am not using ntp or any other such softwares because I don't have an all |
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> time working Internet Connection. |
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Once your clocks are sorted out, you can still use ntpdate to synchronise your |
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system clock with a time server whenever you go online. |
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Uwe |
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-- |
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Unix is sexy: |
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who | grep -i blonde | date |
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cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger |
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mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount |
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sleep |
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