On Monday 17 May 2004 15:42, InfoHelp wrote:
> True, but not 40
>
> Nick Rout wrote:
> >On Mon, 17 May 2004 15:39:00 +1200
> >
> >InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>what makes u think suse has a problem?
> >>
> >>Every time I start it up, the clock is out.
> >>Tried a few settings, no change.
> >>Currently on Time Zone: Global - NZ which is reducing errors from hours
> >>to minutes.
> >
> >how much is it out by? its likely to be out by a minute or two.
You can set the hardware clock in your 'puter by running the hwclock utility:-
hwclock --help
hwclock - query and set the hardware clock (RTC)
Usage: hwclock [function] [options...]
Functions:
--help show this help
--show read hardware clock and print result
--set set the rtc to the time given with --date
--hctosys set the system time from the hardware clock
--systohc set the hardware clock to the current system time
--adjust adjust the rtc to account for systematic drift since
the clock was last set or adjusted
--getepoch print out the kernel's hardware clock epoch value
--setepoch set the kernel's hardware clock epoch value to the
value given with --epoch
--version print out the version of hwclock to stdout
Options:
--utc the hardware clock is kept in coordinated universal time
--localtime the hardware clock is kept in local time
--directisa access the ISA bus directly instead of /dev/rtc
--badyear ignore rtc's year because the bios is broken
--date specifies the time to which to set the hardware clock
--epoch=year specifies the year which is the beginning of the
hardware clock's epoch value
--noadjfile do not access /etc/adjtime. Requires the use of
either --utc or --localtime
the command 'man hwclock' will give you an extended version of the above
instructions.
You can use the 'ntpdate' utility to set the system clock using a timeserver.
'man ntpdate' will tell you what to do.
Refer to http://www.ntp.org/ for the full and enhanced story.
liberty root # ntpdate time.paradise.net.nz
17 May 16:02:48 ntpdate[6187]: adjust time server 203.96.152.12 offset
0.045172 sec
There are other timeservers in the country, but finding them is needle and
haystack stuff. ISPs are supposed to run their own, but many don't.
My serious suggestion is to set your hardware clock to GMT and tell Linux that
you are in the Pacific/Auckland timezone. As you have discovered trying to
set up Linux with the clock set to the localtime is just a _total_ pita. I
think this is mainly because the authors do not realize that there is a
GMT+13 and everything goes completely bananas at the start of summer time.
Anyway that's my exp.
Get everything going and then re-adjust the hwclock back to localtime, you
have to tell the machine that it's on localtime with a statement to that
effect in rc.local. I know that's vague but I have never set up a Gentoo box
to local time, and I do not intend to start now. Anybody?
Only do this if you really cannot live with windows thinking it's in London.
Defenestration is a far better solution.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me,
it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine.
Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
