Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > It gets better. If your RTC is in UTC, you can remove the initscript calls > for hwclock in the S runlevel, and get a marginally faster boot, too. > > Recent kernels know how to read a RTC in UTC and set the initial system time >

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,08.Sep.08, 11:55:24, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > [...] > > > It gets better. If your RTC is in UTC, you can remove the initscript calls > > for hwclock in the S runlevel, and get a marginally faster boot, too. > > I have two scripts

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,08.Sep.08, 11:55:24, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: [...] > It gets better. If your RTC is in UTC, you can remove the initscript calls > for hwclock in the S runlevel, and get a marginally faster boot, too. I have two scripts linked in rcS.d/ hwclock.sh and hwclockfirst.sh. Can I di

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > You mean the BIOS shows the correct *local* time? In case you don't run > > Windows on the same machine you should set it to UTC and let Debian > > handle the time difference. Just make sure you

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du,07.sep.08, 21:18:30, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > You mean the BIOS shows the correct *local* time? In case you don't run > > Windows on the same machine you should set it to UTC and let Debian > > handle the time difference. Just make sur

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You mean the BIOS shows the correct *local* time? In case you don't run > Windows on the same machine you should set it to UTC and let Debian > handle the time difference. Just make sure you have the right time zone > by running 'dpkg-reconfig

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,07.Sep.08, 20:41:23, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > I installed Debian 4.0 on my laptop this Thursday. And I notice today > that the system clock is running faster by 0530 hours. My BIOS shows > the correct time, but Debian changes to this advanced time at every > reboot. What could be going wrong

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Michael Mohn
Am 07.09.2008 um 17:11 schrieb Girish Kulkarni: I installed Debian 4.0 on my laptop this Thursday. And I notice today that the system clock is running faster by 0530 hours. My BIOS shows the correct time, but Debian changes to this advanced time at every reboot. What could be going wrong? (Inte

System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
I installed Debian 4.0 on my laptop this Thursday. And I notice today that the system clock is running faster by 0530 hours. My BIOS shows the correct time, but Debian changes to this advanced time at every reboot. What could be going wrong? (Interestingly, I use the Indian Standard Time, which hap