Strange problem after Daylight Savings

Ian_Hawdon · 04-04-2006, 10:47 AM

Hi,

DST has started but i now have a problem with my SUSE 10 system

Everytime i power up suse seems to set my clock back half an hour,

If i fix it in suse, windows or EVEN the bios, the next time i come to use it, it jumps back!

What is happening?

chief_officer · 04-04-2006, 01:41 PM

Hello,

Maybe it has something to do with hwclock. Change to root and

Code:

rm /etc/adjtime

And reset your clock.

Check the address http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/...TwoTimeServers where you will find a list of Stratum Two time servers. Pick one server who has an open access policy and note its address. Say, you have picked ntp.kamino.fr. While being the root

Code:

ntpdate ntp.kamino.fr

Your systems time will be synchronized with the ntp server.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Tolga

Ian_Hawdon · 04-04-2006, 01:51 PM

But is there any reason my clock is slowing down? it seems to depend on how long i leave my pc, i left it for 1 hour and it has lost 10 mins, when i leave it 6 hours it looses 1 hour!!!

Could it be a hardware problem?

Robhogg · 04-04-2006, 05:39 PM

Are you powering down the PC when you leave it? If there's no mains power to the Mobo, it is likely to be the battery. If it's still connected, I would doubt that it's hardware.

I did have a problem with the time being reset constantly after messing with time zones in SuSE 9.1. It was not as constant as you seem to describe - instead, it seemed to lose random amounts of time, usually when booting up. This certainly seemed to be linked to the OS - it didn't happen if I booted into Win98, and went away after I re-installed. Sorry to say I didn't find a solution to it short of this. Not to say there isn't one, though - I just didn't have much idea how to go about sorting it out.

Rob.

Ian_Hawdon · 04-05-2006, 10:13 AM

it can't be bios battery, i forgot to mention it is a laptop

it read the right time in the bios before linux boots then changes when it is in linux (thus changing the bios clock too

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Ian_Hawdon · 04-08-2006, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chief_officer

Hello,

Maybe it has something to do with hwclock. Change to root and

Code:

rm /etc/adjtime

And reset your clock.

Check the address http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Servers/...TwoTimeServers where you will find a list of Stratum Two time servers. Pick one server who has an open access policy and note its address. Say, you have picked ntp.kamino.fr. While being the root

Code:

ntpdate ntp.kamino.fr

Your systems time will be synchronized with the ntp server.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Tolga

YAY, it worked but i changed the clock first then removed /etc/adjtime, then next time i started up, the time was still right!