Hi! I use a mandrake 8.1 system with dial-up connection. I'm trying to synchronize my system time with chrony but it can't work correctly. It can't estimate the time well after booting. I realised that there is two step in the system time at boot and I think that affects to its accuracy. Here is a part of my /var/log/messages file:
Jan 14 16:26:06 cornflower numlock: Starting numlock: ^[[60G[ ^[[1;32m Jan 14 16:26:06 cornflower numlock: Jan 14 16:26:06 cornflower rc: Starting numlock: succeeded Jan 14 16:26:07 cornflower xfs: xfs startup succeeded Jan 14 16:26:07 cornflower xfs: listening on port -1 Jan 14 17:25:56 cornflower devfsd: Started device management daemon for /dev Jan 14 17:25:56 cornflower devfsd: error calling: symlink in GLOBAL Jan 14 17:25:56 cornflower rc.sysinit: Running DevFs deamon succeeded Jan 14 17:25:56 cornflower devfsd[109]: error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL" Jan 14 17:25:57 cornflower rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd: succeeded Jan 14 17:25:57 cornflower rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded Jan 14 16:25:58 cornflower date: Mon Jan 14 16:25:58 CET 2002 Jan 14 16:25:58 cornflower rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Mon Jan 14 16:25:58 CET 2002 succeeded Jan 14 16:25:58 cornflower rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded Jan 14 16:25:58 cornflower rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded There are two steps in it. After 16:26:07 it steps forward 1 hour - 9 secs, then it steps back 1 hour. My timezone is CET (UTC+1) and the RTC is set to local time. Can anybody explain me why are there these steps? Than you in advance. Attila
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