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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fopj3-000165-I4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:45:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k59MgwDQ027395; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:42:58 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59MW8db009540 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:32:08 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s18so561985wxc for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:32:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UtIcEAOemldn1x6fUb7GcSS/a0yL6MgCFaQQ/SXe4c50ZZGtDS6xeMpQXafC23nXiuG1U2G4oPDsaNyegY3G8H+ZvcAXI+NKkWQT0gmtt8zgCzF6nnn9UscUsPI8rHhaXAU2GZi8Jx4uZgZsOOtgk5DrnavRjpvg/1WEjOhLaZQ= Received: by 10.70.29.3 with SMTP id c3mr3998587wxc; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.84.20 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:32:00 -0700 From: "James Ausmus" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Date is always slightly off by a few minutes In-Reply-To: <200606092222.k59MMpBE023195@robin.gentoo.org> 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; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <200606092222.k59MMpBE023195@robin.gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k59MW8db009540 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k59MgwDh027395 X-Archives-Salt: c61197e0-2e9a-48a5-8990-e96bd6d9bd77 X-Archives-Hash: ead97ee77b210b46212363dafad3c797 On 6/9/06, Daevid Vincent wrote: > This is just annoying moreso than anything... > > Whenever I boot into Gentoo, my clock is always a few minutes off -- us= ually > between 5 and 7 minutes. I have to do an ntp sync to right it every tim= e. > > 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=3D"local" > > # If you wish to pass any other arguments to hwclock during bootup, > # you may do so here. > > CLOCK_OPTS=3D"" > > # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time > # during shutdown, then say "yes" here. > > CLOCK_SYSTOHC=3D"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 > > =D0=C65=CF=D0 > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list