Re: [gentoo-user] Date is always slightly off by a few minutes

["James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@gmail.com>]

On 6/9/06, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:
> This is just annoying moreso than anything...
>
> Whenever I boot into Gentoo, my clock is always a few minutes off -- usually
> between 5 and 7 minutes. I have to do an ntp sync to right it every time.
>
> What is more confusing, is that XP (I dual boot my Dell i8200 notebook) is
> the correct time, and so is the actual BIOS !!!?
>
>         locutus ~ # date
>         Fri Jun  9 15:17:35 PDT 2006
>
>         locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/ntp-client restart
>          * Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ...
>
>         locutus ~ # date
>         Fri Jun  9 15:13:23 PDT 2006
>
>         locutus etc # cat /etc/timezone
>         America/Los_Angeles
>
> I've tried to 'hwclock --hctosys'
>
> locutus conf.d # cat clock
> # /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"
>
> # If you wish to pass any other arguments to hwclock during bootup,
> # you may do so here.
>
> CLOCK_OPTS=""
>
> # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
> # during shutdown, then say "yes" here.
>
> CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no"
Change this to "yes" - your BIOS clock is off, this will set your BIOS
clock to match your updated Gentoo clock when you shutdown Gentoo...

-James


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