On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: > I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place. > At the moment I have to set it every start up, when I remember that is. > I have searched the archives and not found anything. > > Basically the clock is out by a number of hours, usually in the past. I > don't know if there is a pattern in this time difference, there is > probably, but in my flailing about to fix things, I probably don't > notice. I do set the hardware clock with hwclock. It's not a hardware > fault because I can set it under Windows and it will stay correct. It > seems every time I boot Linux it gets set backwards in time, and that > these changes _accumulate_.
I had this problem couple of days ago. It appeares that /etc/adjtime got corrupted somehow. Now I am wondering if that is a bug. Anyway, try removing /etc/adjtime and setting the correct time with date or ntpdate. In my case the problem went away. There is no danger in removing /etc/adjtime, I think. It'll get recreated after the next reboot. If that solves the problem for there is probably a bug in util-linux that gets /etc/adjtime corrupted on upgrade. If not it might be a battery. To be sure check the time in BIOS setup BEFORE you boot into linux in the morning and then see if after bootup the time differs. > > My timezone and "clock as local time" settings have not changed and are > correct. I am not running chrony, ntp, ntpdate, although I have when I > was experimenting, and this might have happened when I removed them, > although I am not sure. They may have been running at the same time. > Reinstallation and purging has been unsuccessful in preventing the > problem. > > I suspect something is going on in the rc scripts, although I don't have > enough experience with them to tell. There is a file called > /etc/rc0.d/S25hwclock.sh, and I don't know whether this is normal. > Help! > > -- > Matthew Tuck - Software Developer & All-Round Nice Guy > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ICQ #8125618) > Check out the Ultra programming language project! > http://www.box.net.au/~matty/ultra/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |______ Alexander Stavitsky
