Re: incorrect times displayed

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 15:06:44 -0400, Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:31:10 -0400, I wrote:
> 
> > My Etch machine is displaying incorrect dates.
> 
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:40:52 -0500, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> replied:
> 
> > Also do 'sudo hwclock -r --utc' and 'sudo hwclock -r --localtime' and
> > post the results.
> 
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:35:53 -0400, I replied:
> 
> > Each gave the same output (to stderr)
> >   select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
> 
> On searching for that error message, I did get two hits:
> 
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2006/10/msg00005.html
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2006/09/msg00000.html
> 
> The second implicates VMware, so it may be relevant that I just today
> installed VMware Server 1.0.2 for the first time.  I'm not sure, but that may
> be when the problem started.  I tried rebooting without the init.d scripts
> httpd.vmware and vmware, but that didn't fix anything.  I still get the wrong
> date, and hwclock still times out.

Try this:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/04/msg01109.html

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