From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EePnZ-0001Uo-H2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:30:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAM4TalI005374; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:29:36 GMT Received: from priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAM4Pnne022995 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:25:50 GMT Received: from zebedee ([154.20.66.11]) by priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.04 201-2131-118-104-20050224) with ESMTP id <20051122042548.YFJP28822.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@zebedee> for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:25:48 -0700 From: Robert Persson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:25:22 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200511181030.02690.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <200511182314.16159.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511182314.16159.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511212025.25445.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 891ec2ed-a8c1-4b08-83d2-67aa04c86641 X-Archives-Hash: f242c3420ff47b0be6e2e1bb91bc1f47 On November 18, 2005 02:14 pm Benno Schulenberg was like: > Your time zone is correctly set? > Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. I think the problem was a corrupt /etc/localtime. When I set up the system I made /etc/localtime a symlink, but SOMETHING seemed to have changed that and replaced it with a copy of (what I presume to have been) the file the symlink should have been pointing to. Unfortunately it must have been a corrupt copy. Deleting this file and reinserting the symlink seems to have made the problem go away. I think the guilty SOMETHING was most likely the kde date and time setting utility. Thanks once again to everybody for their help. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list