Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-25 Thread Rick Thomas
It looks like your bios (hardware) clock was set to local time but you told the debian installer that it was set to UTC (or maybe vice versa) then for some reason the bios clock drifted about a half-hour off (not sure what would cause that). Rather than ntpdate, I'd use ntp. Ntpdate

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Ed Curtis wrote: It's not a dual-boot. I'm not sure but I think the bios date/time had something to do with it because I haven't had a problem with it since resetting it and updateing with ntpdate. I'm unsure about modern hardware, but older machines often suffered from

System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Ed Curtis
the reboot it said 1:04 am with the correct date. I used ntpdate to update and everything is running normally. Can anyone shed some light on to why the system/bios time would differ like that or why running ntpdate and setting the correct time would affect the server as mentioned above? Thanks, Ed

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Clive Menzies
and rebooted. When I checked the server time after the reboot it said 1:04 am with the correct date. I used ntpdate to update and everything is running normally. Can anyone shed some light on to why the system/bios time would differ like that or why running ntpdate and setting the correct time would

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Ed Curtis
was 10:04. I set it to the correct time of 5:31 and rebooted. When I checked the server time after the reboot it said 1:04 am with the correct date. I used ntpdate to update and everything is running normally. Can anyone shed some light on to why the system/bios time would differ like

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Clive Menzies
on to why the system/bios time would differ like that or why running ntpdate and setting the correct time would affect the server as mentioned above? Have you run tzconfig to check if your time zone is set correctly? Yes. It is correctly set for America/New York. I've only seen

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Ed Curtis
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Clive Menzies wrote: Yes. It is correctly set for America/New York. I've only seen this problem on dual boot machines where on installation you set the time to the hardware clock but switching between systems does strange things. This doesn't apply here but you

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Kent West
Ed Curtis wrote: It's not a dual-boot. I'm not sure but I think the bios date/time had something to do with it because I haven't had a problem with it since resetting it and updateing with ntpdate. I'm unsure about modern hardware, but older machines often suffered from clock-drift, and

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 23.10.2006 at 09:02 -0500, Kent West wrote: Ed Curtis wrote: It's not a dual-boot. I'm not sure but I think the bios date/time had something to do with it because I haven't had a problem with it since resetting it and updateing with ntpdate. I'm unsure about modern