On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Kevin Linux account wrote: > Ever since I set my computer up with Windows and Linux on my machine > I have had trouble with the time and date being wrong. in one > instance I had to go into cmos and set the time there but I am still > having problems, any suggestions
Hi Kevin, Once you have sorted out the Win-Linux conflict, you may want to run xntpd to keep your time accurate. It runs well obtaining the time from an NTP server on the Internet, but it can also operate off-line, if you tell it the accurate time for at least two time points as far apart from each other as possible (the more time elapsed between recalibrations, the better the precision). It works pretty well off-line, because the error of the on-board quartz clock is highly systematic and predictable. I only run it off-line, because the precision obtained this way is sufficient for me, and some of the NTP servers on the net produce only crap. You explicitly set the CMOS clock with hwclock --set --date ..., then set the sys clock with hwclock --hctosys. You can also do it the other way round with date and hwclock. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
