time and again
Well, there have been a lot of posting regarding resetting time. It must
be... a sign of the times :). My own problems are with my potato laptop.
It will not keep GMT time in the cmos and localtime on the system. It
always gets reset. I have compiled apm in and out; changed the apm config
option for RTC as UTC and changed the switch in /etc/default/rcS to no
avail. My desktop runs this way no problems (slink system). I installed
the deb ntptime package (I think) but it slows the boot process down when I
am not connected to our network. I see something about a "burst" switch
though that maybe I should try. I do travel about 50% with my laptop
unconnected to a network.
I gather overall that hardware clocks are not that terribly accurate and
that people are more concerned with setting system clocks accurately. A
colleague has a potato laptop; same brand. IT works fine with cmos set to
UTC.
Since I cannot seem to master the UTC in cmos issue, is there a way to make
ntptime a little more forgiving when there is no network connection? I live
in California so its nice to have the system manage PST/PDT changes.
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Michael Perry
mperry@tsoft.com
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