On Friday 06 June 2008 11:47:26 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Maybe when Windows was installed it moved the system clock from UTC to > something else? It's been a _long_ time since I've done a Windows > installation, but I don't remember it ever asking about user > preferences, rather, just doing what it assumes is correct without > taking into account that some other OS's may also be installed (not to > bash Windows or anything). > I really don't think this is windows-related. > Also, have you checked whether or not the machine is syncing with an > NTP server? Same server as the other machines? > The server does. I have now set the kde3 laptop to do so. > What does the BIOS clock say? > The server was on BST and the others on GMT/UTC. I've corrected that, making them all UTC, but the problem remains. > Is this an IBM ThinkPad? If so, you might want to try asking in > ThinkPad-specific forums. A lot of ThinkPad hardware is unique enough > to cause maddening behaviour such as this. IBM (Lenovo) are not afraid > to make 'better' at the expense of 'standard'. > Not a ThinkPad. > >> Also, as you see a 1 hour time difference, that makes me suspect a > >> daylight savings time error. Just something else to check. > > > > 'date' and 'hwclock --show' both indicate that all three machines are > > running BST - > > By that reasoning, my machines are running at their WRST :) > > > So - is system-clock the same as hwclock? Or is there a third variable > > in the equation? > > According to this document it is: > http://giraffe-data.com/software/about_hwclock.html > > How are you setting the clock? With these:? > # hwclock --adjust > # hwclock --hctosys > I set them with the kde tool, but I have checked them with hwclock --show. I'll make more checks tomorrow, but I'm fairly sure that I have checked all three with both 'date' and 'hwclock'. Anne
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