Re: system clock reset on reboot

2007-10-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 27/10/2007 Russell L. Harris wrote: > Has it been more than three or four years since you changed the CMOS > RAM backup battery on the motherboard? A dead battery can cause > difficulties, because some of the time utilities expect to make only > minor corrections (seconds and minutes, not month

Re: system clock reset on reboot

2007-10-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071027 09:14]: i remember some debconf question at the installation of debian, where i was asked whether my hardware clock is set to GMT. is GMT the same as UTC? and to which package does this ques

Re: system clock reset on reboot

2007-10-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071027 09:14]: > hello, > > since one or two months, my system clock is reset on every reboot. > > # date > Sun Oct 28 11:37:15 CET 2007 > # ntpdate-debian > 27 Oct 15:52:03 ntpdate[14642]: step time server 134.34.3.19 offset > -74779.179229 sec > > if i'm co

system clock reset on reboot

2007-10-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, since one or two months, my system clock is reset on every reboot. # date Sun Oct 28 11:37:15 CET 2007 # ntpdate-debian 27 Oct 15:52:03 ntpdate[14642]: step time server 134.34.3.19 offset -74779.179229 sec if i'm correct, this is due to a wrongly set hardware clock. so i set the hardware