Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: > Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? As seen from the debug output, hwclock works fine without it. But maybe some other programs have some use for it, I don't know, here it is off. > I am also using HPET in my kernel. Can I use both these features? > Do they clash with

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 20:38, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > See man hwclock, the section on "The Adjust Function". > Thanks for the explanation and the tip. It certainly makes sense now :-) Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? I disabled it recently when I was trying to get to the root of

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the > > adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full > > hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). > > That was it!!! That was the fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 06:14, Abhay Kedia wrote: > > Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do > > the job. > > How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. "env | grep TZ" Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; f

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
> > with 'hwclock --set --date=', then throw away the > /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting > feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full hour per hour > (that is: ticks away two hours in one). > Stupid me!!! Totally forgot to do the most important thing i.e. to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
> > Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do > the job. > How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. Thanks for the reply -- Regards, Abhay pgpP73ADHTiTa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > But the quick fix is probably rc-update del clock. I don't know if > that's a Bad Thing To Do (TM), but nobody screamed when I asked about > it in #gentoo. > Though the problem is solved now but it is still worth mentioning that removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > If it is ticking , then set the hardware clock to the correct time > with 'hwclock --set --date=', then throw away the > /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the adjusting > feature that thinks your clock is drifting a ful

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Abhay Kedia wrote: > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. How? What commands do you give? > Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I > see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which > I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: The device hwclock connects to *is* the BIOS clock. Uwe Let me rephrase. A physical device has to have a software representation for software to "connect" to it. I'm trying to suggest that something is wrong with that interface. Clearly Abhay's BIOS clock doesn't jive with

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 18:10, Michael A. Smith wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: > > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I > > shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo > > sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 17:28, Abhay Kedia wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is > happening. > > I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I > shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 27 January 2006 21:40, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > That deserves looking into: I'd start with the kernel config. Maybe > something about /dev/rtc? > Here are the outputs --- genbox abhay # ls -l /dev/rtc ls: /dev/rtc: No such file or directory gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours ago at 14:00 hrs and boot at 18:00 hr

[gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I