Very Computer

I was hoping that all clock problems would go away
when I upgraded to RedHat 5.2.

Well, they didn't.

Now when I boot Linux, the hardware clock gets reset
about a month in the future, and the system clock is
also wrong the same way.

From the ARC console, the hardware clock is correct
at power-up. The problem seems only to happen after
booting Linux. I have to log in as root, and manually
fix it with date -s, and write the hardware clock
with /sbin/clock -Aw. I've made sure that /etc/sysconfig/clock
has the right stuff in it: (UTC=false, ARC=true), so
something else is wrong.

 One would think that my computer could do what my wristwatch
has been doing correctly for 10 years.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Ed

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Sbastien Brossier


http://www.chez.com/sebbross/

I had the same problem: whenever I would boot my clock would be set to
1942... also, it is too fast, about a minute a day.
The solution I opted for is netdate which is part of the rh 5.2
distribution an can be found somewhere in
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, actually to be precise

http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/alpha/netdate-1.16-2.alph...

netdate gets the time remotely from 3 different timeservers and sets the
system clock accordingly. i put this script in the xinit files with the
following timeservers:

clock.tricity.wsu.edu delphi.cs.ucla.edu clock.llnl.gov

same as in the crontab file so that every morning the time is set. I
hope that this will more or less solve your problem.

cheers, h.

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