Re: Does Fedora mess up the clock for Windows?

"Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hi all,

I have a dual boot system with FC5 and Windows XP. On FC5 I run ntpd
with the default config files. The drift file varies widely, from -0.4
or so to as much as -60 or 100 or more. Generally the longer Fedora is
up the smaller the number, though it's always negative.

But Windows is losing time hand over fist, maybe a couple minutes or
more in a 3-hour Windows session. I use an old program (AtomTime95) to
correct the Windows clock periodically but it doesn't do any permanent
good.

I had the same kind of thing happen with Fedora 4. It went away when I
installed Fedora 5 until I activated ntpd.

According to /var/log/messages Fedora has to set the clock back about
a second or so every time I boot it, but nowhere near the gargantuan
misalignment of Windows.

Does anybody have any idea how to make these two guys live happily
together sharing the clock? Yes, Fedora does use local time - at
least, that's the way I installed it..

Thanks much,

--
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>

"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
--Fred Allen

Set UTC=false.

,----
| Setting UTC or local time
|
| When Linux boots, one of the initialisation scripts will run the
| /sbin/hwclock program to copy the current hardware clock time to the
| system clock. hwclock will assume the hardware clock is set to local
| time unless it is run with the --utc switch. Rather than editing the
| startup script, under Red Hat Linux you should edit the
| /etc/sysconfig/clock file and change the ``UTC'' line to either
| ``UTC=true'' or ``UTC=false'' as appropriate.
`----

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Leon

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