On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:49 PM, dhk <dhk...@optonline.net> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.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 >
Thanks to everyone that answered. I think I'll take the evening off and see if it's fixed itself tomorrow morning. If not I'll give Alan's idea a try and if none of that works just build the machine again but this time follow instructions! ;-) I've saved most of the stuff I need - stage3/portage-snapshot, contents of etc/world and a few other things. There's nothing on the system as I cannot make X run correctly yet so it's not a big deal to go about a clean install. Again, thanks! - Mark
