There is also the battery on your mother board is dead and you reboot. Wade -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thierry ITTY Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:10 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: system time A 22:27 23/10/2003 -0700, vous avez écrit : >Hello everyone, >I am a new bie to redhat linux. >I have a problem regarding system time .The problem is >that, I have to set system time at everyday.When set the system time >using date command the time is set but after some time it is changed . >Thanks in advance some clues - somebody else changes date too : find him ! might happen with some cron'ed job calling some kind of time sync command - you reboot and the system time is set from RTC which is not up to date : compare system time to hardware clock ("date" vs "hwclock") eventually set the h/w clock to the right time ("date --set" to set the system time then "hwclock --systohc" to set rtc to the system time) -- another thing is that the system assumes the h/w clock is running UTC but hwclock actually doesn't -- another thing is you sometime boot another m$ os with different time considerations - the quartz is bad : check whether time lags quickly, for example every hour you get 5 more (or less) minutes -- the system may though compute a correct system time if the quartz is regular by handling drift information hth -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
