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Ge(nto)org
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 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:56 am Post subject: Weird time problems... |
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I recently installed Gentoo on my old Sony Vaio PCG-737 and experience some really strange problems with the clock (UTC):
1) I set the correct time. I shut down. (just a plain, ordinary shutdown -h now)
I wait, time passes. When I power on again, there is the correct time set in the BIOS. Linux boots. Now, umm, now isn't quite correct... ...some time is lost, depending on how long it was shut down. However, it is not exactly as much time lost as passed during shutdown... 
2) Today is Monday, 9th Day of August, 2004. However date returns:
Tue Aug 9 10:27:43 CEST 2004
How can I fix this? Already read the man pages... ...there seems to be no way to set the correct day of the week?! 
thx, georg |
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snkmoorthy
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/... /etc/localtime |
| Code: | | set time to local or UTC in /etc/rc.conf |
remove /etc/adjtime if it exists, I had this problem when I changed timezones
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Ge(nto)org
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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thx a lot! 
removing /etc/adjtime did help... |
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qzec
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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What is /etc/adjtime for though and is it really safe to remove?
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snkmoorthy
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| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:57 am Post subject: |
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it is created by /etc/init.d/clock, take a look it is pretty simple, it manipulates "hwclock" to get the system time.
the /etc/adjtime will be created if it doesn't exist by this script, everytime |
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qzec
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| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Ahh, I see...
Thanks,
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