Re: System clock

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

>>>My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week.  Any ideas why this
>>>might be?  A battery perhaps?  Or is it normal?  If I remember 
>>>rightly OSX uses some sort of network time server to set the system
>>>clock.  Is there an equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out 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
>
>Cedric

Thanks for the info.  I will investigate further...

sebyte