RE: Overnight clock problems?
do you have apm installed?? i had it on my laptop, and it would restore the
time in gmt, which was about 5 hours off. it took me a while to figure it
out. it was kinda a stupid thing. maybe that is it, maybe its not. sure
sounds weird if its not. if you think its cron, go into /var/messages and
check the cron logs and see if its running ntpdate. is xntpd running?
possibly you have it syncing with a ntp server and your timezone is off.
just a thought.
Jason
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've had this problem since installing a new hard drive and putting
> unstable on it. Prior to this unstable was running on an
> older hard disk
> without problem.
>
> Basically, I logoff from the Internet overnight and in the
> morning find
> the machine showing the early hours as the time. Today at midday I got
> to it and it claimed it was around 3am. This is clearly wrong.
>
> If I leave the network connection up overnight, the clock is fine the
> next day. In fact, if I bring down the net connection during the day,
> the clock eventually gets set to the early hours again. This is
> puzzelling.
>
> I'm thinking that somewhere there is a cron job to set the time using
> NTP and when no NTP servers are found the clock may be getting set to
> midnight, only I can't find it. I have ntpdate installed and
> have to use
> it immediately when I come online in the morning else logs will be
> screwed obviously.
>
> Any ideas where I can remove this entry? I have a pretty
> standard setup,
> very little non-debian software components installed. It's driving me
> mad :(
>
> Regards,
>
> James Green
>
>
>
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