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From: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Date is always slightly off by a few minutes
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:45:10
Message-Id: b79f23070606091532x1cc816abqd6018f350d84b1dc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Date is always slightly off by a few minutes by Daevid Vincent
1 On 6/9/06, Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com> wrote:
2 > This is just annoying moreso than anything...
3 >
4 > Whenever I boot into Gentoo, my clock is always a few minutes off -- usually
5 > between 5 and 7 minutes. I have to do an ntp sync to right it every time.
6 >
7 > What is more confusing, is that XP (I dual boot my Dell i8200 notebook) is
8 > the correct time, and so is the actual BIOS !!!?
9 >
10 > locutus ~ # date
11 > Fri Jun 9 15:17:35 PDT 2006
12 >
13 > locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/ntp-client restart
14 > * Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ...
15 >
16 > locutus ~ # date
17 > Fri Jun 9 15:13:23 PDT 2006
18 >
19 > locutus etc # cat /etc/timezone
20 > America/Los_Angeles
21 >
22 > I've tried to 'hwclock --hctosys'
23 >
24 > locutus conf.d # cat clock
25 > # /etc/conf.d/clock
26 >
27 > # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
28 > # Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then
29 > # set CLOCK to "local". Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then
30 > # you should set it to "local".
31 >
32 > CLOCK="local"
33 >
34 > # If you wish to pass any other arguments to hwclock during bootup,
35 > # you may do so here.
36 >
37 > CLOCK_OPTS=""
38 >
39 > # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
40 > # during shutdown, then say "yes" here.
41 >
42 > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no"
43 Change this to "yes" - your BIOS clock is off, this will set your BIOS
44 clock to match your updated Gentoo clock when you shutdown Gentoo...
45
46 -James
47
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50 > ÐÆ5ÏÐ
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