I am truly confused! I am using MDK 10 and for some strange reason MDK now keeps gaining 3 hours when I reboot and then when I adjust the time it says it cannot connect to the DCOP Server and I have no idea of what to do!

Can anyone help me?

Someplace there is a setting that lets you specify if your bios is set to Greenwich time or local time.

You probably have it set to local, while Linux is thinking that the bios is set to Greenwich time, so at boot it adjusts it's own time.

"You probably have it set to local, while Linux is thinking that the bios is set to Greenwich time, so at boot it adjusts it's own time."

I have no idea where to find such a set up in MDK. I just go to MDK Control Center which is automatically in root and go to the Time configuration and tell it my Time Zone with the correct time. Of course, I do not use GMT or NTP because I do not know how to use them, but I was able to maintain my time before. The time only started getting changed by itself yesterday and I cannot figure what is going on, especially the darn DCOP Server problem.

I don't remember where it's located in any GUI however...

edit /etc/sysconfig/clock

There is a line which reads

UTC=true

Or false.

If you set your bios to Greenwich make it read true.

If you set your bios to local, make it read FALSE.

Also check the other lines to make sure that the time zone is correct for your local.

Shutdown, check your bios clock and then let Mandrake come up.

Wasn't sure how to subject this one, however, I am thanking you. It is just that I suppose I should have added something to my original post. So here goes and I hope you can help me with this part as well.

In all reality, back when I did have MDK 9.1 I was somehow able to use NTP with no problems, but when I upgraded to 9.2 I lost it along with whatever info I had about setting it up. To some extent that may not have mattered since I never closed my computer and totally got rid of Windows. However, I later bought a fancy Lexmark X75 All in One Printer and had to reinstall Windows so I could use it. Then I noticed that everytime I would go to Windows the time would be changed by 3 hours and if I adjusted it in Windows it would change by 3 hours in MDK.

So I first figured I would just not change it in Windows, but sometimes I would need to copy and/or print a file from the net and as soon as I would connect to the net my time would automatically adjust and that would then throw it off in MDK. I think that may have been what threw things out of time again, but I did not remember doing anything.

In anycase, my time is fine now, but I know that when I have to go to Windows to print something off the net my time will go off by 3 hours again. So do you know how I can fix that problem? Do I really need NTP and if so how do I make it work?

The entire situation is confusing to me especially since a friend of mine has Windows and MDK on his computer and has not had any problems with his time at all. So, as usual, I am at a loss. Your assistance as well as anyone else is greatly appreciated.

You merely need to get Windows and Mandrake to use exactly the same technique to retrieve the bios time.

Windows always uses the RTC time which the bios reports back.

Linux can use either Greenwich time (which in certain circumstances is much better) or local time.

You only need to set Linux to use local and then make sure that both Linux and Windows show the same time zone defaults.