>>>My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this >>>might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember >>>rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system >>>clock. Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out there? >> >>ntpdate is the package you need. > >I would rather suggest ntpd. ntpdate ajust the clock once, ntpd adjust >continuously. So if you have a permanent connexion, ntpd is better. > >>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. > >As I only use OSX for internal modem and DVDs, I set the timezone in osx >to Vancouver (whereas I'm in France). By this way osx does not reset my >clock... > >>James > >Cedric
Thanks for the info. I will investigate further... sebyte
