Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update?

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

Drake Donahue wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>
> To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:22 AM
> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update?
> 
> 
>> Okay, here's something I can't seem to figure out.  My laptop time 
>> doesn't want to stay sync'd.  I always run ntpd at boot time to keep 
>> it in sync, but now, when I boot without an ethernet cable hooked up, 
>> it's over 5 hours off.  It didn't do this until I updated the timezone 
>> just after Christmas.  /etc/conf.d/clock is set to my timezone 
>> (EST5EDT) and /etc/localtime is symlinked to the correct timezone.
>>
>> I thought maybe the BIOS clock was wrong, but it's not 5 hours off, 
>> maybe a minute or so.  I tried setting the HWclock to system time and 
>> that didn't fix it.  Any ideas on what else to try?
>>
> Could it be this simple? Quoting:
> 
> # /etc/conf.d/clock
> 
> # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
> # Greenwich Mean Time).  If your clock is set to the local time, then # 
> set CLOCK to "local".  Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then # 
> you should set it to "local".
> 
> CLOCK="local"
> 

Yeah it could very well be. I didn't notice that before, but for some 
reason this file was changed.  It's possible I did it and not realize 
it, but I was almost certain that I didn't update that file when I ran 
dispatch-conf.  But then again, one of my other personalities might have 
done it.  I'll have to ask around and see which one could have been the 
perp.  Thanks for picking that up.



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