My clock won't stay set

Mordauk · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: My clock won't stay set

Everytime I reboot or poweron my clock is off. So everytime I have to set it again and it is getting to be a pain. I thought at first that my motherboard battery was dead but I just replaced it and it is still doing it.
Any clues?

ebrostig · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

Not sure what can cause it except a faulty motherboard.

I use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to set the time from an external timesource each time I boot and then i have a cron job that checks my clock against an atomic time source from time to time to check drift and adjust accordingly.
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PennyroyalFrog · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 194

I was having a simular problem, although my clock would slowly get off the real time instead of at boot. But I found these links helpful:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-359445-highlight-clock+boot.html - Another person with a similar problem
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTP - Gentoo Wiki for setting up NTP

xepk · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 124

If your clock is set to local time (it probably is), change CLOCK="UTC" to CLOCK="local" in /etc/conf.d/clock.

I always wondered why gentoo sets this to UTC by default, virtually every computer I've seen uses local time.

Mordauk · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

I'll try these and see how it goes.

Thanks