Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-21 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Omer Musaev wrote: :) That is nice, never would think about it:) However, the machine seems to reset its time every night. You probably have some type of cron job that resyncs the system clock with the hardware clock. Redhat does it, I don't know about anyone else. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S.

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-21 Thread Omer Musaev
Shaul Karl wrote: As someone else has implied, 1 hour is the difference between the winter and the summer clocks. Therefore, it might be that the system tries to get back to winter clock (no day light saving time). The cause might be that you have not updated the Israel zoneinfo file. :)

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-20 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Omer Musaev wrote: System time jumps one hour backwords once a day (a night). There is no rdate, ntpdate, or similar on cron. There is no apmd running. There is no ntpd or xntpd running. There is no timezone, since system

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-20 Thread Ely Levy
Afer you find out the hour it happened in Check NASA logs for UFO acitivity around your house I heard missing time usually happens then Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, guy keren wrote: | | On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Omer Musaev wrote: | |

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-20 Thread Omer Musaev
Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Omer Musaev wrote: System time jumps one hour backwords once a day (a night). There is no rdate, ntpdate, or similar on cron. There is no apmd running. There is no ntpd or xntpd running.

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-20 Thread Shaul Karl
As someone else has implied, 1 hour is the difference between the winter and the summer clocks. Therefore, it might be that the system tries to get back to winter clock (no day light saving time). The cause might be that you have not updated the Israel zoneinfo file. Here is the relevant part

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-20 Thread guy keren
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote: 2. write a cron job that will write the time into a file, once a minute. Been there done that... Took me a long time to realize that cron can't be used to diagnose clock troubles. IMHO cron is a victim of the problem, not a

(Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-19 Thread Omer Musaev
I have a strange problem on one of my machines: System time jumps one hour backwords once a day (a night). There is no rdate, ntpdate, or similar on cron. There is no apmd running. There is no ntpd or xntpd running. There is no timezone, since system time is stored in RTC. I want to set that

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-19 Thread Shachar Shemesh
- From: "Omer Musaev" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:05 PM Subject: (Not so) Stupid question I have a strange problem on one of my machines: System time jumps one hour backwords once a day (a night). There is no rdate, ntpdate, or simil

Re: (Not so) Stupid question

2000-09-19 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Omer Musaev wrote: System time jumps one hour backwords once a day (a night). There is no rdate, ntpdate, or similar on cron. There is no apmd running. There is no ntpd or xntpd running. There is no timezone, since system time is stored in RTC. i would suggest the