On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problem with the clock/time on my debian box. Everytime, > I bring up the system, the clock is always about 4 hours behind. > I have to setup the time using "date -s hh:mm". I'd like to know > how to: > 1. setup the Debian to always read the time/date from the CMOS > according.
See 'man clock'. > 2. adjust the time periodicly if the system is up for a while. > I've noticed that when the system stay up for long period of > time, the clock slow down to like 3-4 hour in a 24 hours period. > If you are connected to the Internet, you can use a program like rdate or ntpdate to update your system time from an accurate time server, like time.nist.gov. Then you can update your CMOS time with 'clock -w'. A simple script could be invoked with cron to periodically update the clock. I have a call to such a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up to update my clock whenever I connect to my ISP. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .