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

[dhk]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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
>
>

This happened to me a while back and it was my fault too.  I was doing
the setup from memory and I made a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT
instead of copying it to /etc/localtime.  I found my bios time was not
right, I forget why, but I would set the time in the bios and after
rebooting it was wrong again.  I think I was sync'ing the time with
hwclock and since I was only six hours off it eventually cleared up
overnight.  Also check /etc/conf.d/clock and make sure you don't have
anything unusual in there.

dhk