[ale] Timing Issues

[Denny Chambers]

Sorry for the lack of info. I am running RedHat 6.0 intel. I saw from
linuxconf that "Store date in CMOS" was set to Universal format (GMT). I
don't think that I turned that on, atleast not on purpose. Any way I
turn it off thinking that was my problem. That was about 2 weeks ago and
I am still having the problem. I check the /etc/sysconfig/clock file and
is set to UTC="no" and ARC=false. The man on hwclock talks about how to
set UTC on but I didn't see how to turn it off. If anyone has a clue
please let me know.

Thanks
Denny

Gregory McLean wrote:
> 
> -> 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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