* Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071027 09:14]: > hello, > > since one or two months, my system clock is reset on every reboot. > > # date > Sun Oct 28 11:37:15 CET 2007 > # ntpdate-debian > 27 Oct 15:52:03 ntpdate[14642]: step time server 134.34.3.19 offset > -74779.179229 sec > > if i'm correct, this is due to a wrongly set hardware clock. so i set > the hardware clock to the system time after running ntpdate-debian: > > # hwclock --systohc > > but after the next reboot, my system (and hardware) clock is again reset > to some date and time in the future (something about 1d 4h, not exactly). > > i remember some debconf question at the installation of debian, where i > was asked whether my hardware clock is set to GMT. is GMT the same as UTC? > and to which package does this question belong? > > could a wrong answer here be the reason for my issues? if this is the > case, it must have changed in debian/unstable within the last months, as > i didn't have this problem before. > > greetings, > jonas >
Has it been more than three or four years since you changed the CMOS RAM backup battery on the motherboard? A dead battery can cause difficulties, because some of the time utilities expect to make only minor corrections (seconds and minutes, not months and years). Check by searching with Google, but I think that there is only a minor technical difference between GMT and UTC. For practical purposes, they are one and the same. GMT is the traditional term; UTC is recent. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
