> Hopefully someone reading will have some additionaly insight as to
> why time is slightly warped in our systems.
One of my Mandrake 8.0 machines suddendly put itself on UTC and I was
not able to restore it to running the hwclock on localtime.
Much later: By copying from the good machine I was able to restore
the hwclock to operation on local time, so necessary for Windows
operation.
The /etc/localtime file had been clobbered by a localtime directory
which was a copy of the entire contents of:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/
Deleting the localtime directory and restoring a /etc/localtime file
from the contents of:
usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne
and setting /etc/sysconfig/clock to:
ARC=false
UTC=false
ZONE=Australia/Melbourne
solved the problem. The desktop panel, date, date u, xdaliclock and
kworldwatch all now show correct values, as does the system after an
ntpdate adjustment.
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BTW, the file names mentioned in man hwclock are completely
erroneous, and there is no man for ntpdate (see
/usr/share/doc/ntp/ntpdate.htm).
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