On Wednesday 27 August 2003 21:44, Phil Deane wrote: > Hello Folks > > I have a bit of a problem. My system is loosing time. > Maybe its being kdnapped by aliens?
> But the other night I left it in Linux and the next day I noticed the clock > was out by about 8 mins. (not the first time it has been out) > Linux sets a software clock from the hrdware when it starts up. Some distributions (certainly Suse8.2) write the time back to the clock at shutdown. So you have a range of options to choose from. A quick fix would be to disable the write back at shutdown (/etc/rc.d/boot.clock on my Suse box), but if you really want to do it properly then read up on (man 2/8) adjtimex. > I posted some newsgroup messages last night, and rebooted into windows, all > seems fine, rebooted into linux this evening, to check email etc, and found > my date was still at 27th August, but the year was 2020?!?! > Thats more than just slippage. If it helps, I know of a Windows box which occasionally jumps forward 150 years causing the applications it runs to crash (so I'd be interested to find out why yours is doing this). HTH Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
