Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-25 Thread stuart
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:48:23PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Charles Trois wrote: ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris and in /etc/conf.d/clock: CLOCK=local Did you maybe change this last one

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Charles Trois wrote: ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris and in /etc/conf.d/clock: CLOCK=local Did you maybe change this last one after your last reboot? Because then the system time won't have changed

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Trois
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but date keeps returning GMT + 2. Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does 'hwclock --show

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Trois
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Your hardware clock is supposed to be at UTC? Check with 'grep CLOCK= /etc/conf.d/clock'. Your time zone is correctly set? Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. If those are okay, do: rm /etc/adjtime hwclock --set --utc --date=2005-11-18 21:34 # example time

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Micheals
i am having that same problem also. On 11/21/05, Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benno Schulenberg a écrit : I too have a clock problem (the time returned by date being one hour fast), and I have been fiddling with hwclock without finding the right way. When I saw the above post, I

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/21/05, Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too have a clock problem (the time returned by date being one hour fast), and I have been fiddling with hwclock without finding the right way. When I saw the above post, I thought that it gave me the answer, and tried to apply it, but had

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Charles Trois wrote: The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but date keeps returning GMT + 2. Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does 'hwclock --show --debug' say? Look for the line

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-21 Thread Robert Persson
On November 18, 2005 02:14 pm Benno Schulenberg was like: Your time zone is correctly set? Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. I think the problem was a corrupt /etc/localtime. When I set up the system I made /etc/localtime a symlink, but SOMETHING seemed to have changed that and replaced it

[gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Robert Persson
A week or two back I reset my system clock temporarily to 2001 in order to install a package under wine with a time-limited installer, after which I set it back again. Since then I have been getting really weird and annoying clock behaviour. For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
Another solution if you are having ntpd problems, is to use this command from a crontab: ntpdate -b time.nist.gov stop ntpd before that On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Robert Persson wrote: A week or two back I reset my system clock temporarily to 2001 in order to install a package under wine with a

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Robert Persson wrote: For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I am on UTC rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future. Now it is getting even weirder because I find that when I boot up and enter kde, the

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Persson wrote: For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I am on UTC rather than PST. At other times it tells me that I am on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future. Now it is getting even

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-18 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Also, the KDE clock has a (IMO a very annoying) feature that will change the timezone it displays in response to the scroll wheel. So I never knew of that feature till you just mentioned it. I think that's pretty cool! John -- If