Re: Missing Time (There be Aliens?)
Drew,
If you want some help getting NTP to work, let me know. It's very
accurate, usually requires that you run the hardware clock in GMT (I've
never gotten it to work any other way...?), and if your system clock is
(insert unknown SMALL value here... it's in the man page) off from the NTP
server, it DOESN'T set your system... it writes an error to its logfile
instead, complaining about the large difference.
NTP's overkill if you just want the clock fairly accurately set from the
network... it's a high-accuracy solution for a low-accuracy problem we're
tackling on laptops... my opinion, anyway.
But I do have it running on multiple machines (both the slink xntpd and
the new potato ntpd) and it works on both.
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Shaun Lipscombe wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Both me and a friend run Debian on laptops (as well as Desktops). We
> > are both experiencing the same problem. The problem is namely,
> > incorrect system time. Strange as it may seem, the BIOS is drifting
> > and I don't think its my CMOS battery.... as my friend is having the
> > same problems. It must be something to do with the clock --set
> > ...blah --hctosys on boot, and clock --set ...blah --systohc on
> > shutdown. Has anyone else seen this behaviour, or does anyone know
> > how I can track this lil' one down?
>
> I've had a problem that sounds similar. Last week Linux crashed on me (for no
> obvious reason. ha! who says MS Windows is the Devil's brand and only Linux
> will "do it" for you?!) After this I noticed that the clock had gone back to 1
> Jan 1990 00:00. Then no matter how many times I invoked hwclock, after each
> reboot the clock came back again to this primaeval time setting. Eventually the
> only way I could set the clock permanently was by booting Windows and setting it
> from there. After this I was curiously able to use hwclock in Linux to set the
> time permanently.
>
> I still seem to have lost my proper timezone, but that's not so important to
> me. Also the ntp daemon for setting the clock from the network won't work for
> quids, but I guess that is a question for another time.
>
> In short, try setting the clock from Windows (heh) and see if it'll work better
> after that.
>
> Drew Parsons
>
>
>
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