Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-11 Thread Meka[ni]
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:57:40 -0500 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gabriel wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:15, Alberto Bert wrote: On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-10 Thread Alberto Bert
On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows seem to touch the time and in gentoo I've always a wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-10 Thread gabriel
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:15, Alberto Bert wrote: On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew Farmer
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:15:02PM +0200, Alberto Bert muttered: On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Yes, I've got a one-liner for you: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 (or whatever partition Windows is on) What is it supposed to do? I don't know what /dev/zero is... /dev/zero

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
gabriel wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:15, Alberto Bert wrote: On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-10 Thread Alberto Bert
:-))) ohh, nice stuff! I was watching in man pages to see what it does mean... be carefull folk! ;-) alb On Sep 10 at 10:07AM-0700, Andrew Farmer wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:15:02PM +0200, Alberto Bert muttered: On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Yes, I've got a

[gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows seem to touch the time and in gentoo I've always a wrong time. I think this is an old problem... Is there any way to overcome it?

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows seem to touch the time and in gentoo I've always a wrong time. I think this is an old

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Alberto Bert
On Sep 09 at 04:08PM-0400, Marshal Newrock wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows seem to touch the time and in

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 22:22, Alberto Bert wrote: Windows doesn't understand the concept of GMT. Time is only localtime. So if you dual boot Windows and Linux, then you either have to deal with the time being wrong in one of them or tell

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I've got a dual boot win and gentoo and I decided to use the GTM time for the linux kernel, but I would like to see my local time. Unfortunately windows seem to touch the time and in gentoo I've always a wrong time. I think this is an old problem... Is there any way to

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Marshal Newrock
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Mike Williams wrote: Windows doesn't understand the concept of GMT. Time is only localtime. So if you dual boot Windows and Linux, then you either have to deal with the time being wrong in one of them or tell Linux not to use GMT. Edit /etc/rc.conf and set

Re: [gentoo-user] time always wrong with dual boot

2003-09-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Andrew Gaffney wrote: Alberto Bert wrote: Unfortunately windows seem to touch the time and in gentoo I've always a wrong time. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 (or whatever partition Windows is on) Funny, +5 :-) -- 20:42:36 up 4:50, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.14, 0.15 pgp0.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-25 Thread latin hypercube
Maybe a stupid question but you did link an appropriate timezone to localtime when you installed? Something like: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime We're warned of major clock drift if this step is missed. On Monday 24 February 2003 22:44, Rod Smart wrote: Mat Branyon

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-24 Thread Steve Juranich
Mat Branyon wrote: I just recently switched to gentoo. I am using fluxbox and it never seems to keep the time correct. I just updated the time via ntpdate (which is also set in my crontab to run every nite). It had the right time, but now I look at it and it's roughly an hour and ten minutes

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-24 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:27, Mat Branyon wrote: It had the right time, but now I look at it and it's roughly an hour and ten minutes fast. I noticed that too, I have a completely new machine, and the clock would be off all the time while I was configuring What does this kind of error mean?

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-24 Thread Mat Branyon
But the date is actually wrong, It corrupts very quickly. This machine has never had a problem with the date before... On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:39, Steve Juranich wrote: Mat Branyon wrote: I just recently switched to gentoo. I am using fluxbox and it never seems to keep the time correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-24 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 24 February 2003 21:59, Mat Branyon wrote: But the date is actually wrong, It corrupts very quickly. This machine has never had a problem with the date before... Set the time, run hwclock --systohc , run rm /etc/adjtime and you're go. Also make sure that you store the time in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-24 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:34, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Set the time, run hwclock --systohc , run rm /etc/adjtime and you're go. Also make sure that you store the time in the correct format in your hardware clock (either utc or local) Which doesn't help you at all if the hardware clock drifts.

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2003-02-24 Thread Brian Reichholf
and now as a forward. -Forwarded Message- From: Brian Reichholf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong Date: 24 Feb 2003 23:12:45 +0100 On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:46, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:34, Paul de

Re: [gentoo-user] Time is Wrong

2003-02-24 Thread Rod Smart
Mat Branyon wrote: I just recently switched to gentoo. I am using fluxbox and it never seems to keep the time correct. I just updated the time via ntpdate (which is also set in my crontab to run every nite). It had the right time, but now I look at it and it's roughly an hour and ten