my clock is screwy

pcdebb · 12-17-2003, 12:02 AM

when i boot into fedora, the clock says it's now 8pm, when it actually is 1am. If i reset it, and go back to windows, then the windows time is way ahead by the same number of hours. why does it do this? I dont make it sync to the NTP server cause I thought that what may have done it.

any ideas?

ugob · 12-17-2003, 12:13 AM

your time zone is probably wrong in linux.

pcdebb · 12-17-2003, 01:14 AM

well i'm on the east coast and i chose that one (new york time)

ugob · 12-17-2003, 08:23 AM

you could double-check with the command "date"?

maybe syncing it with ntpdate would be good...

pilot1 · 12-17-2003, 03:05 PM

You could try changing it with (as root) redhat-config-time, if you have an always on connection you could try enabling NTP on that screen.
As for why the clock is messed up in Windos to, I believe it's because Fedora is changing the BIOS clock, which Windows apparently get the time from.

ugob · 12-17-2003, 03:10 PM

have you set, by any chance, "hardware clock uses UTC", in time config?

BadKarma · 12-17-2003, 05:58 PM

what windowz dist. u usin?

wytiger · 12-19-2003, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ugob
have you set, by any chance, "hardware clock uses UTC", in time config?

This is most likely the culprit, from what you describe... (uncheck the box if it is checked)