Re: Incorrect time
Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Aug 22 2007, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
>> A few days the time showed up incorrect, it was fine before. I'm using
>> ntp. This is on an iBook G3 with etch.
>>
>> Any ideas? It's quite annoying.
>
> This may be due to an internal battery dying (does the iBook G3 has one?
> I don't really know, despite having one myself).
>
> You can adjust the time with ntpdate (with the -b option) and then
> install openntpd (which is made by the OpenBSD people and is quite
> smaller than the regular ntpd).
>
Even smaller is rdate, though you have to envoke it "by hand" (or cron). I
have to use it about once or twice a month. The internal clock isn't really
very accurate on my iboo g3, late 2001
Norbert Lange-Schäfer
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