Rajko M. wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 August 2007 22:25, joe wrote:
>> Rajko M. wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 15 August 2007 21:35, BandiPat wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Hans Linux wrote:
>>>>> my opensuse 10.2's clock keep changing everytime i reboot. Usually
>>>>> everytime i reboot, the clock will be about 30 minutes behind from
>>>>> the previous time setting, and if i reboot two, it will 60 mniutes
>>>>> behind and so on. I have to change it manully. How do i fix it?
>>>> ---------------
>>>>
>>>> I believe I experienced this once when I had set the clock to "local"
>>>> rather than UTC.
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>> And cure is usually to set correct time, delete file adjtime and reboot.
>> No reboot needed, since this is fortunately not microsoft windoze.
>> Substitute "restart ntpd" in place of "reboot".
>>
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Reboot is not taboo. 
> It is one of the ways to have system time set. 
> Easy to write and easy to run. 
> 
> I guess that running 
>   /etc/init.d/boot.clock restart
> with properly set environment variables will do the same, but it is much more 
> to write, read and type. 
> 
> For me to avoid advice to reboot, I would have to look:
>   man hwclock
>   man date
>   script /etc/init.d/boot.clock
> and then extract information in usable form. After some hour(s) of reading 
> and 
> testing (create test case) that advice will really work I would be ready to 
> avoid reboot that takes few seconds to type in mail and 2-3 minutes to 
> perform. 
> Does that make any sense?


I suppose it does, but it sounds contrived - normally I would just type:

rcntpd restart

and in the worst case, I might also type:

hwclock --systohc

True, rebooting isn't taboo, but it leaves a bad taste for unix people. People
coming from a microsoft background they tend to reboot for every little thing,
so I try to encourage them to sit on their hands instead, so they can gain the
realization that they don't *have* to reboot for every little thing like they
did in the bad old microsoft days.

Joe
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