Thanks for the help this is what the command you suggested gave: Sat Feb 10 07:50:29 UTC 2007 time in rtc is Sat Feb 10 08:50:30 2007 Sat Feb 10 08:50:30 2007
So I'm guessing that it's down to Debian making a mess of things and not OSX. OSX must read the RTC see that it's an hour too fast and correct it. To be honest I really don't know where to go from here and do require a bit of hand holding. To think I used Debian for 5 and Ubuntu for 2 years on X86! So the RTC is one hour two fast according to the command output. Why doesn't Debian adjust the value of the RTC? I'm sorry but I'm a bit baffled and need a hand. Tzconfig tells me I'm set to Europe/London which is right. Why doesn't Debian just set up time by checking the RTC at boot up. It's obviously not changinging the RTC on reboot / shutdown because if I was to boot into OSX now with the RTC one hour two fast OSX would recognise it. I've just checked and all the scripts for hwclock are symlinked correctly too. I also have rtc support in the kernel, which is custom compiled. But the kernel does say that if fails to access rtc0. Sorry this has been a bit of a rambling message that I hope makes some sense. Any further advice much appreciated. regards, Ananda On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:39:20 -0500 Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like a timezone problem. It could be one or both of two > things: > > 1) Your hardware CMOS clock is set to something other than UTC or > local time. For Linux, it must be one or the other -- UTC is > preferable. > > In Linux as super-user, at the bash prompt type "(export TZ=UTC ; > date ; clock)" (without the quotes, but with the parens). > The three times it prints should be identical and equal to the > present time in UTC. If, as seems likely, you're in GB and "Summer > Time" is not in effect, then it should also be the same as your local > time. > > 2) Either MacOS or Linux has the wrong timezone. My guess (assuming > you're in GB) is that one or the other is set to BST, even though it > is manifestly *not* summer in the Northern Hemisphere right now. > > Hope that helps! > > > Rick > > > > On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > by now you're probably mostly familiar with the trials and > > tribulations I faced moving to a new architecture but there is one > > thing that is really annoying me! > > > > I have NTPD running synced to four servers here in the UK and one > > in France which works fine. The correct time is shown and > > everything's ok. The problem is when I boot to OSX it always shows > > the time as being one hour behind and corrects it. Fair enough. > > If I then reboot into Debian it shows the time to be one hour > > ahead. You'd think that NTP would just correct the time > > accordingly. It does but if I'm logged into GNOME which I use as > > the desktop it blanks the screen and no matter what I try I cannot > > get back to GNOME or a console terminal. If I reboot after OSX and > > log into a terminal while I'm using the terminal GDM informs me > > that the greeter (the default Etch one) is crashing and changes it > > to the old school one from Potato! The only solution is a hard reset. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
