Re: Bizarre Clock Problem
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote:
> I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place.
> At the moment I have to set it every start up, when I remember that is.
> I have searched the archives and not found anything.
>
> Basically the clock is out by a number of hours, usually in the past. I
> don't know if there is a pattern in this time difference, there is
> probably, but in my flailing about to fix things, I probably don't
> notice. I do set the hardware clock with hwclock. It's not a hardware
> fault because I can set it under Windows and it will stay correct. It
> seems every time I boot Linux it gets set backwards in time, and that
> these changes _accumulate_.
I had this problem couple of days ago. It appeares that
/etc/adjtime got corrupted somehow. Now I am wondering if that
is a bug. Anyway, try removing /etc/adjtime and setting the correct time
with date or ntpdate. In my case the problem went away.
There is no danger in removing /etc/adjtime, I think.
It'll get recreated after the next reboot. If that solves the problem
for there is probably a bug in util-linux that gets /etc/adjtime corrupted
on upgrade. If not it might be a battery.
To be sure check the time in BIOS setup BEFORE you boot into linux in
the morning and then see if after bootup the time differs.
>
> My timezone and "clock as local time" settings have not changed and are
> correct. I am not running chrony, ntp, ntpdate, although I have when I
> was experimenting, and this might have happened when I removed them,
> although I am not sure. They may have been running at the same time.
> Reinstallation and purging has been unsuccessful in preventing the
> problem.
>
> I suspect something is going on in the rc scripts, although I don't have
> enough experience with them to tell. There is a file called
> /etc/rc0.d/S25hwclock.sh, and I don't know whether this is normal.
> Help!
>
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