On Sat, 1999-11-06 at 14:36:25 -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote:
> Whenever I reboot/shutdown my debian system, one of the message I see on
> the console during shutdown is :
>
> CMOS clock updated to Sat Nov 6 14:25:38 EST 1999
>
> This alongwith the fact that APM support (which I have compiled into my
> 2.2.13 kernel) seems to reset the time on every reboot is likely the
> reason why my clock seems to be losing time gradually and every couple
> of weeks totally loses it!!!
>
> I checked my RedHat5.2 installation for this CMOS clock updating on
> reboot/shutdown and RH5.2 is not doing this. Prior to using Debian-2.1,
> I had been using RH-5.2 with APM support compiled into 2.2.10 and I
> never had any problems with my clock losing time. Only after switching
> to 2.2.10 (with APM support) on Debian-2.1 did I notice this constant
> and consistent problem with my CMOS clock.
>
> My questions are:
>
> (1) is it possible to configure Debian so that it DOESN'T update the
> CMOS clock whenever the system is shutdown/rebooted ?
>
> (2) are there any tools for Debian similar to timetool and timeconfig on
> RedHat which allow the setting of system time from a GUI and ncurses
> interface respectively ?
>
> (3) How do I change my system's configuration so that the CMOS clock
> stores time in GMT ? This is supposed to be a better way to store time
> in the CMOS clock but I can't seem to find the option in my system's
> BIOS. (FYI, I am using an ABIT BH6 MB).
>
> A number of people on this list have already recommended the use of
> packages like ntpdate, xntp, etc. but I would first prefer to solve this
> problem by having Debian not update my CMOS clock on every
> reboot/shutdown. After that, I will look into setting up xntp, etc. to
> sync time/date whenever I dial out to my ISP.
>
> My system is a slink/potato salad.
(1) Edit /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to comment out the command
hwclock --adjust.
(3) Edit /etc/defaults/rcS as appropriate (it changed a little from
slink to potato).
These solved, in my case, the problems you outlined, but of course YMMV.
I have no idea re (2).
Keith
