yes my clock has been going craizy lately as well i use rdate to time.nist.gov to sync it and it appears that my clock always skips some seconds and minutes in time, i use local clock.
On 5/20/05, Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > rob3 wrote: > >>>I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a > >>>brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead > >>>already. Windoze shows the same behavior. > >>> > >>>Thanks, Rob > >>> > >>> > >> > >>Is the clock bouncing between two hour times while the minute stays more > >>or less correct? If so, then Gentoo is probably setting the hardware clock > >>to UTC (universal time, or Greenwich Mean Time) when it shuts down, and > >>Windoze is expecting local time on bootup... They may be messing with each > >>other?? > > Check /etc/rc.conf and see if clock says "UTC" or "local". If it says > UTC, than that is the problem (as Windows doesn't support having a > different OS clock than bios clock). > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
