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Re: hwclock and time



Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> 
> I have been following the postings about hte inaccuracy of time
> brought about by shutting down the machine.
> 
> The suggestions were: rem /etc/adjtime, run hwclock
> and remove hwclock --adjust line from /etc/initd.hwclock.sh
> 
> I have done this, run hwclock to adjust the time and then run
> hwclock --hctosys
> 
> but everytime I shutdown the machine, the next time I reboot
> the time is wrong. I am running slink, and kernel 2.2.10.
> 
> I don't remember this problem with ham and earlier kernels.
> What is the answer?
> 
When you did all that did you actually correct the time in your BIOS
when you rebooted your machine?  I think that's the missing piece; there
was nothing you did in the above that actually adjusted the hardware
clock correctly, I think.


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