The file /etc/adjtime has the following two lines: cambados:~# cat /etc/adjtime -115.758041 945099084 0.000000 945097761
Is it important the fact that it has two lines? Another question: What command do I have to use in order to set the clock up? Thanks in advance and apologies for having replied to your mail so late. Manuel Arenaz Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Try modifying /etc/adjtime so that it has one line: > > 0.0 0 0.0 > > Those are zeros, not the letter O. > > Then set the time. > > then reboot. > > /etc/adjtime is ment to keep track of the "drift" on your HW clock > (since no clock is perfect). However, the drift isn't always the same. > If /etc/adjtime was made during a time when your clock had an extrodinary > amount of drift in a short period of time, the hwclock program may have > assumed your clock was always that screwed up. Then it would > try to correct that on every bootup. In effect, it would always > overcompensate. > This happened to me. > > Changeing /etc/adjtime to the line above should tell the system that your > clock > is perfect. Eventually your system will write a new /etc/adjtime, and fill > it > with more realistic values. > > Bryan Scaringe > > On 13-Dec-1999 Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The clock of my machine has gone crazy. When I set it up to the correct > > time in the BIOS everything works fine for a while. But after some time, > > the clock begins to accumulate more and more delay. When I reboot the > > machine and enter in the BIOS setup, the hardware clock has been > > changed. What is happening? May it be related to the timezone? > > > > I detected this strange behaviour two weeks ago, and the Linux Debian > > was installed in my PC in june. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Manuel Arenaz > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > /dev/null > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null