Re: The clock has gone crazy...
> The file /etc/adjtime has the following two lines:
>
> cambados:~# cat /etc/adjtime
> -115.758041 945099084 0.000000
> 945097761
>
> Is it important the fact that it has two lines?
>
> Another question: What command do I have to use in order to set the clock up?
>
hwclock ?
> Thanks in advance and apologies for having replied to your mail so late.
>
> Manuel Arenaz
>
>
> Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>
> > Try modifying /etc/adjtime so that it has one line:
> >
> > 0.0 0 0.0
> >
> > Those are zeros, not the letter O.
> >
> > Then set the time.
> >
> > then reboot.
> >
> > /etc/adjtime is ment to keep track of the "drift" on your HW clock
> > (since no clock is perfect). However, the drift isn't always the same.
> > If /etc/adjtime was made during a time when your clock had an extrodinary
> > amount of drift in a short period of time, the hwclock program may have
> > assumed your clock was always that screwed up. Then it would
> > try to correct that on every bootup. In effect, it would always overcompensate.
> > This happened to me.
> >
> > Changeing /etc/adjtime to the line above should tell the system that your clock
> > is perfect. Eventually your system will write a new /etc/adjtime, and fill it
> > with more realistic values.
> >
> > Bryan Scaringe
> >
> > On 13-Dec-1999 Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The clock of my machine has gone crazy. When I set it up to the correct
> > > time in the BIOS everything works fine for a while. But after some time,
> > > the clock begins to accumulate more and more delay. When I reboot the
> > > machine and enter in the BIOS setup, the hardware clock has been
> > > changed. What is happening? May it be related to the timezone?
> > >
> > > I detected this strange behaviour two weeks ago, and the Linux Debian
> > > was installed in my PC in june.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Manuel Arenaz
> > >
> > >
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