On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 17:43, Charlie wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 05:01 am, many eyes noted that James Sparenberg wrote:
> > Yep normal operation.  When you reset time especially this much it has
> > to re-sync X.  Though I don't have the details I do know that X is time
> > dependent.  Which is why it needs to re-sync.
> 
> I tried it by 10 minutes, because the system was out that much when I changed 
> to daylight saving. Instead of KDE I took your advise and altered it through 
> MCC (not that I knew what that was, just typed it onto the konsole and 
> entered root password.) and there was no screen blanking, just changed the 
> clock and that was it.

MCC is Mandrake Control Center (aka DrakConf) the main configuration
tool for Mandrake.  Oh and I know why you kept loosing "time"  In KDE
when you set time you also have to set the zone.  No matter if it says
the right one or not.  If you don't it defaults to UCT or some such
nonsense.  

> 
> Must say that I like it that way better, because the blanking out always gives 
> me a bit of a shock, though I know that is what is supposed to happen. Makes 
> one feel like control is lost. Not that control was ever owned.
> 
> Charlie


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