On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:21 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Hi all, > > Been using Mandrake for a while now and someone, with my authority, > updated the machine from 8.0 to 9.1. I like it very much however...... > > Coming from a Windows intensive background I mainly use X and I have > noticed that since the upgrade, my system time seems to increment itself > by 2 hours each time I reboot the machine, if I don't physically change > it each time. > > I have set the local time zone in the clock GUI to be > Africa/Johannesburg and hence my time zone to SAST but my time still > increments. I thought it might be that my hardware clock was said to be > running on UTC but after correcting the time on the GUI and rebooting > into the BIOS I confirmed that the time was correct for my time zone. I > continued the boot process to bring linux up and saw that the GUI had a > time 2 hours ahead of the actual time. > > If I do not adjust the time on each reboot the system advances my > hardware clock by 2hrs which can result in me writing in today for > tomorrow. :) > > I am comfortable using Kwrite under root to edit the necessary file/s > but I do not know which one or many to edit. I opened the > /etc/sysconfig/clock file and was greeeted with the below: > > UTC=false > ARC=false > ZONE=America/New_York > > Where the America/New_York came from is anybody's guess. I tried editing > the file and putting Africa/Johannesburg as the Zone but I did not have > any luck with the line as below: > > UTC=false > ARC=false > ZONE=Africa/Johannesburg # was America/New_York > > Any ideas to stop the incremental clock and get it to recognise that > Zone as it is setup in the GUI? > > TIA
Hylton: I had the same experience yesterday. Not having seen any reports of a sudden relocation of the local tectonic plate, I figured it was in my KDE settings. I cured it as follows (all from the GUI): 1. From KDE Control Center >> System >> Date & Time >> set time zone to "No selection". (This is what got me into trouble -- the day before, I'd changed this from "No selection" to "New York". 2. From Mandrake Control Center >> System >> Set Date & Time >> set time zone. A window will then appear asking if the system clock is set to GMT. Select yes or no as appropriate. I've since been through a reboot and the early morning cron routine, and KDE is still reporting the correct time. Warning: Never accept the advice of people who live in the UK about adjusting clock settings between local and GMT. How would they know? ;^) -- cmg
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