On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:53 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:44 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > On Friday 21 January 2005 04:18, Mike Noble wrote: > > > fire-eyes wrote: > > > | I'd set up a cronjob for ntpdate, every 49 minutes or something like > > > | that. I'd strongly suspect your CMOS battery. As for fluxbox's time > > > | showing different, I've no idea what that's all about. > > > > > > Don't really know much about flux, but does it have a timezone setting > > > which is probably set to the wrong time zone. > > > > > > As for the time being off by by an hour after 30 minutes, really does > > > sound like a MB battery issue. I would start by replacing the battery > > > in the MB. > > > > I don't think this is good advice. Unless you manually read the hardware > > clock > > and write to the system clock using "hwclock", the system doesn't touch the > > hardware clock but once during bootup. > > > > I suspect messed up timezone settings. Could it be that the system and > > users > > are on different timezones? Do a "date" as root and as one or two different > > users and watch not only the time itself but also what it says about > > timezones. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date > Fri Jan 21 16:43:56 EST 2005 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su > Password: > laptux nick # date > Fri Jan 21 16:44:01 EST 2005 > > they are both in sync together, just both out of sync with the real > time, my flux clock says its 9:44,
don't forget that the user variable TZ affects the time, so if flux is setting that it will afect the output echo $TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mediatemp $ date Sat Jan 22 17:12:17 NZDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mediatemp $ TZ=UTC date Sat Jan 22 04:12:25 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mediatemp $ TZ=EST date Fri Jan 21 23:12:33 EST 2005 so chect $TZ in flux :-) (or in the environment the flux clock runs in, you can find it in the /proc tree i believe) > > my localtime is linked to: > localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern, > > and i doubt its a battery issue, cause i have 4 gentoo boxes going and > they all have different times, none correct, this is the only one i have > messed with ntp on, i want to make sure i can get it working before i do > it on the other machines. what servers are people using in their > ntpd.conf? i have: > > server pool.ntp.org > > is there an EST server i should be using? what other settings should i > have in that file? i have: > > driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > restrict default nomodify nopeer > restrict 127.0.0.1 > > thanks for the help > > > Uwe > > > > -- > > Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: > > If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. > > > > http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
