Re: [SLE] SuSE's time keeping
From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 12/04/03
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To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:44:58 -0500
On Wed December 3 2003 10:38 pm, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
> Bill Wisse wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I had ( and maybe have) a problem with the time on my SuSE 9.0 box.
> > The time is just wrong and I cannot change it ( it won't accept my
> > changes). Went to the data base for assistance and found an article
> > http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/06/bjacke_hwclock.html
> > Did what was suggested , the time changed ( don't know yet what it will
> > be after a reboot).
> > However there is one sentence in this art. what sort of puzzles me :
> >
> > In order to maintain the time as precise as possible, this procedure
> > shall be repeated several times the week after at the soonest.
> >
> > Any Idea?
>
> I have had the same problem with SuSE 9.0. It seems that no matter I how I
> set "localtime" and set the time via netdate on the internet at bootup it
> always goes to UTC time. So, if I reboot several times the "date" becomes
> days behind.
>
> I have wriiten SuSE's Support about this issue and NO HELP! And this may
> be my last SuSE version. On 9.0 I have had more problems than on any other
> SuSE distros. Like "time" and my Palm device not being seen. However,
> hwinfo, /proc and "lsusb" does see it
>
> I did dig around in /etc/init.d and found the problem (at least I think so)
> in /etc/init.d/boot.clock (as I remember). It was a problem with "date -u"
>
Have none of you ever heard of NTP? I set my watch by my computer whereas I
used to use WWV....
NTP is very easy to set up on SUSE. If you want my /etc/ntp.conf file I'll
be glad to send it. That's the only thing you need to change once ntpd is
installed.
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