Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 11/18/05, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert Persson wrote:
> > For instance I sometimes find that the kde clock tells me that I
> > am on UTC rather than PST.  At other times it tells me that I am
> > on PST, but gives a time exactly 8 hours in the future.
> >
> > Now it is getting even weirder because I find that when I boot up
> > and enter kde, the clock shows a time approximately, but not
> > exactly, 10 days in the past.
>
> Your hardware clock is supposed to be at UTC?
> Check with 'grep CLOCK= /etc/conf.d/clock'.
>
> Your time zone is correctly set?
> Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'.
>
> If those are okay, do:
>
>   rm /etc/adjtime
>   hwclock --set --utc --date="2005-11-18 21:34"   # example time
>   hwclock --hctosys
>
> If your hardware clock must be at local time, then replace --utc
> with --localtime.
>
> Benno
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>

Also, the KDE clock has a (IMO a very annoying) "feature" that will
change the timezone it displays in response to the scroll wheel.  So
if it ever shows a different time than the "date" command, or jumps to
a different timezone, this may be the reason.  You can configure the
timezones that can be displayed by right-clicking on the clock, Show
Timezone -> Configure Timezones.

-Richard

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