On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 18:18 -0800, Mike Noble wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > fire-eyes wrote: > | > | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like > | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time > | showing different, I've no idea what that's all about. > | > > Don't really know much about flux, but does it have a timezone setting > which is probably set to the wrong time zone. > > As for the time being off by by an hour after 30 minutes, really does > sound like a MB battery issue. I would start by replacing the battery > in the MB. > > Make sure that "CLOCK="local"" is set in /etc/rc.conf and that > /etc/localtime is pointing to the correct timezone for your area. > > If all is set correctly, and time is still drifting in huge amounts, > you have a problem with your MB and probably should look a getting > another one. > > Mike > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFB8GZylJFYJP/fwTsRAu31AJ9IRG2i55qqe1O1DaJCR4zfQfN2VACeJs4K > BnL8dBM8GQQl+yWChHuhBS0= > =Trsy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > i dont have that in my rc.conf file anymore, if i remember correctly it got changed to something in /etc/conf.d with my last emerge world and when you boot it tells you, that you should change to the new way they want to do it. i cant seem to find it now, and also, this is a relatively new laptop, and im not ripping it apart to change the battery if it is messed up, so i have to come up with something else to fix it. my time never varied at all with other distro's its odd that gentoo has a problem with it.
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