[ale] Reverting from ntpd

[Robert Heaven]

Does GNOME/KDE have a time zone setting? Maybe it's set to think your
hardware clock is GMT time.

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 10:18, John Wells wrote:
> I'm still trying to observe, but it seems to be consistently off by around
> six hours.  Another weird thing is that I can set the date using "date"
> from the command line, or using the Red Hat clock applet, but if I restart
> the X server the time is screwed again.
> 
> This leads me to believe it's got to be a setting that's screwed
> somewhere.  I'll take a look at adjtime tonight when I get my hands back
> on the laptop.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> Calvin Harrigan said:
> > 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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