Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > hi > > i have a problem with my system clock. > > whenever i reboot or start my system my clock is > incremented by around 6 hrs. after that its alright > i.e if i correct the time it dosent mis behave but i > dont know whats wrong in reboot or booting the sys? > > if somebody can help or faced this kinda situation? > This seems to be a common problem. I've had it myself, but I don't recall how I fixed it, it was something to do with a setting in my Mandrake Linux control panel. I just saw a document here last week that referenced this problem, and how to fix it, so hopefully someone will come along with the answer. The problem is that your real-time hardware clock is using a different time zone than your system clock, so when you reboot, one or the other updates the other one, and things go awry... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html