[ale] Reverting from ntpd

[Calvin Harrigan]

At 10:14 PM 1/26/2003 -0500, John Wells wrote:
>I set up my laptop to use ntpd using the redhat-config-date in Red Hat 8.
>But, when I'm not plugged up to the net and reboot, time doesn't get set
>correctly, it seems.
>
>I've tried de-selecting "Use network time" in redhat-config-date, but it
>seems it's still not getting set correctly even though the bios contains
>the correct time.
>
>Here's the big drawback of having gui config tools, imho.  Can anyone tell
>me where time is configured under Red Hat 8?  Looking for flat files.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jon
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Is the time being set, off by a few seconds/minutes or way off by days?  If 
it's slightly off you might be running into the drift compensation 
mechanism built into most linux boxes.  The amount of time a 
(hardware)clock drifts is calculated by the system and is compensated for 
every time the machine boots up.  The quick way is to just delete the 
'/etc/adjtime ' file.  Read the man file on hwclock for details.


Calvin...

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