On Tuesday 24 June 2003 00:24, G�zim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know what's happening but my computer clock
> keeps falling back, I went to the BIOS and changed it
> but after a day or so if fall back by like 10 mins.
> and keeps doing that. What could be causing this?
> Note: it's the windows clock too.

I also had this problem and after some time I found out (I am using WinXP) 
that there is a service in Windows that automatically connects to a time 
server and syncs the clock. After disabling this and setting the time in the 
BIOS to UTC everything went fine and still is. The only thing is that my 
Windows time is now one hour behind (winter time) but as I hardly ever use it 
it doesn't really bother me.

I think why it doesn't happen with other linux distros is that they sometimes 
assume that they are running next to Windows (most of them even ask at setup) 
an will take the time from the BIOS being set to localtime (as Windows does). 
I still cannot understand the lags of less than an hour but maybe that's got 
something to do with /etc/adjtime and the time adjustment by Windows.

HTH,
Jan

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