Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Monday 25 January 2010 18:05:14 Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    I've just rebuilt my new machine this morning playing with
>> different ways to do things. Unfortunately I went sort of fast and
>> forgot to set date/time/timezone. (Doing too much from memory this
>> time.) Now when I try to set the system time to local and the hardware
>> clock to Pacific time and turn on ntp-client/ntpd I'm getting lots of
>> complaints about modification times in the future.
>>
>>    This is completely my mistake and I can start over and fix it in a
>> couple of hours but I'm wondering if there's an easy way out of this?
>
> Unless your atimes were wildly out I think that it should at some point settle
> down and stop complaining.  Have you rebooted since?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
Yes, I've rebooted a number of time, but I've since set everything
back to settings that don't complain.

I was off by 8 hours I think - Pacific time vs what - GMT? Maybe it
would be OK after 8 hours? that would be OK but I'm nervous about
using the machine in the meantime because it's huge numbers of
messages and every file edit is a complaint.

Maybe set it up right this afternoon, leave the machine alone, and
then wait until tomorrow morning?

Thanks Mick!

- Mark