Well although you don want to. NTP is the answer to all problems regarding time. It works perfect.
On Saturday 05 January 2002 08:48 pm, you wrote: > I must be missing something obvious, but I'm at my wits end. > > My hardware clock (in BIOS) is set to local time. When system boots up, it > says "Setting clock (localtime) : Correct_date Correct_time *PST*. (I live > on the west coast in US). "hwclock -r --localtime" shows correct time, > and "date" shows correct time (PST). > > They system runs for an hour or so. I type "date" on command line. It > shows an exact integer difference of 9 hours behind the hwclock, i.e "date" > gives hwclock time-9 hours *PST*. I look at my logs, and it doesn't say > anything about the system time being reset. > > I use linuxconf, MCC, and hwclock to change system clock back to correct > hwclock time, but this pattern repeats itself. If I don't change the sytem > time, on subsequent reboot, rc.sysinit says "Setting clock (localtime): > bad_date bad_time *UTC*." I've even tried deleting /etc/adjtime, but this > doesn't work either. > > What's going on here and how do I go about solving this? (And please don't > suggest NTP!) > > Thanks, > Mark > > /etc/sysconfig/clock: > ARC=false > UTC=false > ZONE=US/Pacific > > diff > /etc/localtime==/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific==/usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV >/PDT8PST I'm using MDK 8.0, with latest official updates > (kernel-2.4.8-31.2mdk and glibc-2.2.2-6.1mdk) > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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