Re: System clock
According to James Tappin, on Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:54:01 +0100,
>On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:46:07 +0100
>Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>
>ST> My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas
>ST> why this
>ST> might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember
>ST> rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system
>ST> clock. Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out
>ST> there?
>
>ntpdate is the package you need.
I would rather suggest ntpd. ntpdate ajust the clock once, ntpd adjust
continuously. So if you have a permanent connexion, ntpd is better.
>Actually a dual-booting system is
>quite interesting as OSX set the H/W clock to a US time-zone (PST I
>think) while linux uses UT so on switching system without a network
>connection you get a wildly wrong clock.
As I only use OSX for internal modem and DVDs, I set the timezone in osx
to Vancouver (whereas I'm in France). By this way osx does not reset my
clock...
>
>James
>
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