OpenSuSE 10.1 Clock Issues
 

I have been using opensuse 10.1 for a while now and only recently have I been having issues with the clock. Whenever I turn on the computer and boot up the os, it seems to take the time between twenty minutes and two hours late. Whenever I adjust the clock suse will keep perfect time until I restart or turn off the machine then it will obscure the time again. The BIOS clock remains intact, whenever I boot into Windows XP it shows the correct time as does the system information in the BIOS, but once in suse it will run late.

I have heard about suse running from the system clock instead of the hardware clock. Is there anyway to set it to run from the hardware clock or check every so often to resynchronise it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Machine:
Packard Bell K5285
Pentium 4 2.8GHz, nVidia GeForce GO 64MB, 40GB HDD, 512MB RAM.
OS:
openSuSE 10.1, Windows XP Professional SP2

All OSes set their time from the hardware clock. So does suse ! It readds the hardware clock, initialiase system time and maintains it's own system clock.

As far as you time slippage is concerned, check your timezone settings. Right click on the date/time in the panel and choose "Adjust Date & Time". There, you can select the right timezone and DST. Further, if the time you see on this applet is not the right time, you can click on change and set the right time. One thing, you might wana check is to see if the "Hardware Clock is set to" is set to Localtime. If it is set to UTC and if your hardware clock is storing localtime then, suse will think hardware clock is set to UTC and add or subtract from it based on the timezone you've chosen.

Your computers system board has a battery to maintain the time when the system is off, I would check into replacing it they are usually about $3(radio shack), my experience is that is what usually causes such issues. Or maybe not...Its a bit weird with the bios time never changes or windows. Are you sure that the bios is not losing time go into if first after having the computer off for a while. Windows XP is automatically resync the time. I have a solution dont turn your computer off. I don't... =)

All of those settings have already been checked, I moved from the US to Ireland recently so I double checked those settings and the battery is ok as the other OS can hold its time perfectly as well as the BIOS clock.