On Monday 03 February 2003 00:43, mikepolniak wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 01:10:20 +0100 > > Christoph Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my problem is that if i set up my clock correctly in the bios > > and then boot gentoo, the clock works correctly. > > after a secod reboot the clock dispays a wrong time. ( 10 minutes in the > > future and the future time increases the more i reboot ) > > > > i did this to set up my timezone in gentoo > > # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime > > > > in my rc.conf clock is set to "local" > > > > i do not get the point, what did i do wrong? > > Did you install a new kernel? Some gentoo-kernels mess with "jiffies", > which affects the time. > > In any case you can emerge ntp and run ntpdate at boot to sync your time.
Besides that, set the hardware clock (hwclock --systohc) delete /etc/adjtime where automatic clock adjustment info is stored. This file is supposed to correct the clock for "systematic drift". If the time has been set wrong though it does the opposite, it systematically drifts the clock. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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