On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, you wrote:
-On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Eric Simo�ns wrote:
-> Hello !
-> Time has a strange behaviour on my Linux Box since I installed Mandrake 6.0.
-> I'am in GMT+2, so I told this during the install.
-> Date says :
-> [root@mambo /opt]# date ; date -u
-> ven jui 2 08:04:57 CEST 1999
-> ven jui 2 06:04:57 UTC 1999
-> It's Ok !
-> But a few hours later, the time jumps two hours ahead, both UTC and CEST.
-> (i.e. my kde clock shows "17:09", and one minute later "19:10". Time to go home !
;)
-> So I have to set the date back. Tryed to do so using date -s ; date -u -s ;
linuxconf
-> with various GMT+2 settings (Europe/Paris, Posix/Europe/Paris, etc.), but still a
->couple of ours later, time jumps two hours ahead.
->
-> Never met this problem on previous installs. (Including Mandrake 5.3.)
-> Anyone ever heard about this time travel implemention ?
->
-> Thanks in advance,
-> Eric
->
-run timeconfig, uncheck "[ ] Hardware clock set to GMT"
????
It would be much better to make sure the hardware clock is set to GMT.
Most PC's are not set to GMT. Next be certain the link from
/etc/localtime points to the correct file. For Paris it should be
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris. I have had problems with Linuxconf
doing this correctly.
If your machine has a connection to the Internet at bootup, add an
rdate -s command to the end of rc.local. Mine looks like"
rdate -s time.nist.gov
You will probably want to use a time server somewhere closer than
Colorado :-)
If you are going to stay up for several days at a time, create a root
cron job that uses the rdate command to reset the clock from the time
server once per day. I set mine every night at 2 minutes before
midnight.
--
Stephen Carville
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