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n00b
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 Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:22 am Post subject: clock is always wrong by 3 or 4 hours[solved] |
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i have set my clock with 'date -s xx:xx:xx' a thousand times; it only sets until i reboot. i have tried putting both UTC and local into the appropriate space in the etc/conf.d/clock config file. i have tried to have it set properly at shutdown. NO LUCK. it works from ubuntu when i boot from the other partition and in elive. but not when i boot my gentoo. WHY?
anyone have any insights?
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gentoo_dude
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| What is the timezone set to: /etc/localtime |
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avieth
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n00b
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: clock time solved |
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| thanks so much. NTP did the trick. seems like a workaround, but a solution is all i wanted. |
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simvin76
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:43 am Post subject: |
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I am not sure about this, but this is how I think it works. I had the same problem before and this was how I solved it.
In /etc/conf.d/clock:
| Code: | # If you want to sync the system clock to the hardware clock during
# shutdown, then say "yes" here.
CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" |
This is probably set to no. When you boot the init scipts thinks your hardware clock is in UTC and changes the time to your local timezone. If you live 3 or 4 timezones away from UTC, everytime you restart the computer the clock will be moved 3 or 4 hours.
But I think you should still use NTP. Or if you reboot your computer often, use ntp-client. My server loses almost 5 minutes every day, and ntp is essential then.
Take care
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njcwotx
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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I had to set
CLOCK="UTC"
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CLOCK="local"
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LostInGentoo
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject: Clock problems... |
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EDIT: This is probably not the right way to place this... I created a new post...
Hi everyone
I'm experiencing clock problems on my laptop (IBM X31 - bought as new a week ago).
In the beginning the clock problems was found to be within every reboot of the computer, but after starting the clock-daemon in every reboot, the problems stopped for rebooting.
Now I can reboot the computer, but If I shut it down and then start it later - it looses time (also negative time).
E.g. I started my computer yesterday - adjusted the time, and shut it down this morning.
Today at 13:30 the computer clock was set to april 6 (yesterday) 20:xx, which was quite some hours before I shut it down.
My /etc/conf.d/clock looks like this:
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# /etc/conf.d/clock
# Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
# Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then
# set CLOCK to "local". Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then
# you should set it to "local".
CLOCK="local"
# If you wish to pass any other arguments to hwclock during bootup,
# you may do so here.
CLOCK_OPTS=""
# If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
# during shutdown, then say "yes" here.
CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
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and I really don't understand why this happens at all.
I have tried with both the CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" and CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no" - so this doesn't seem to help changing.
Thanks in advance.
/ Preben Holm |
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gentoo_dude
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| Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| what does /etc/localtime point to? There it should point to your timezone (EST5EDT) for me. |
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njcwotx
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: |
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Lost, I just opened up this post before heading off to bed, so my answer will be short, but there is a setting in the kernel configs having to do with the number of cycles updating the clock.
Read this thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-327823-highlight-.html
its not exactly your trouble, but has other settings that I needed to fix one similar to yours in the past. hope this helps. the hertz setting and pit may help you out.
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