[ale] Timing Issues

[Gregory McLean]

-> I am having a problem keeping my clock set properly. I have been using
-> xntp for about 7 months with no problem. Now my xntp client will die
-> after a few hours and my clock will fall back exactly 5 hour, which
-> happens to be the Eastern Time offset from GMT. I have checked
-> everything that I know to check. Has anyone else seen this problem or
-> know a possible fix?

My guess is the hardware clock on your machine is either set to utc time 
and when you installed at first you told linux it wasn't. Or vice versa.
Anyway, you didn't say which distribution this is so I'm not 100% sure of 
a proper fix for you.

The general fix is to find out how the distribution thinks the clock is 
set and set it in that fashion or correct the distributions idea of how 
the hardware clock is set.

How does one set the clock? You should have a hwclock program, see 'man 
hwclock' for its options.


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