On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:46:07 +0100 Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ST> My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas ST> why this ST> might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember ST> rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system ST> clock. Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out ST> there? ntpdate is the package you need. Actually a dual-booting system is quite interesting as OSX set the H/W clock to a US time-zone (PST I think) while linux uses UT so on switching system without a network connection you get a wildly wrong clock. James -- +------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | +--------------------------------------------------------+---------+
