Your laptop's system clock is behind. Once you set the time again, open
up a command prompt, and, as root, run "hwclock systohc" to set the
hardware clock.
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, John N. Alegre wrote:
> I am running RedHat 6.1/6.2 on two towers and a Think Pad. Both the towers
> switched the year just fine, but the laptop booted Monday morning with a date
> in 1999 and a time seven hours off. I used the control-panel time machine and
> changed the date and time and selected "Set System Time".
>
> After I rebooted the date was correct but the time changes back to the incorrect
> 7 hours ahead. I have tried a a few more times and the time does not hold past
> reboot.
>
> Can anyone help? Is there a way to set date from the command line? Why would
> this only happen on the laptop?
>
> All comments welcome.
> john
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