How to set a correct date at boot ?

[Orphee]

Hi !
The date is always wrong, when I boot, although it is right with OS X...

I tried setting CLOCK= to the path to my local zone in /etc/rc.conf, or with CLOCK="local"
And clock is in the boot runlevel.

What is wrong ?

Thank you very much for your help.
(Gentoo 1.2 on ibook G3 600, 2001 edition)

[ct3]

There might be two reasons for that:
1- either your clock is set to UTC (local time) and your config believe it is set to local time (UTC)
2- or your /etc/zoneinfo symlink does not point to your correct local zone file.
The symptom for that is that each time you reboot from MacOS to Linux your clock is drifted by a fixed amount of hours.

Remedies:
1- check that /etc/zoneinfo points to the correct zone file (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich in my case)
2- try to change the CLOCK setting in /etc/rc.conf to either CLOCK="UTC" or CLOCK="local".

Hope this helps

[tanis]

Hi,

i had the same problems (:

Solution:

First you boot the gentoo burn cdrom wich comes with a tiny date
command, lets call it busybox date.

To set the date right after your initial cdrom boot try this:

#date -s 2002.08.14-22:42:42

which means 14.08.2002 22:42:42 (don't panic)

Then you will install gentoo base system and so on

After that the system boots from your local disk.

First make the right settings in /etc/rc.conf for clock:
CLOCK="local"

then (reboot if you feel to do it)

After that you have (i had!) access to the evil gnu date command
which is strange (for me) to set the right time and date

#date --set='2002-08-14 22:42'
which sets the time and date to 22:42 and 14.08.2002

reboot and type 'date' again.

Hope that will help.

[tanis]

Sorry i forget to say you must set the right timezone for your location

For me this command will do it:

#ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berllin localtime

look in /usr/share/zoneinfo for for locatime symlink

(just reboot if you want to go sure)

and type date

[tanis]

SORRY to much wine....

localtime stands in /etc

just what i did

#ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berllin localtime