Re: Time on server jumps ahead

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On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:15, John Ketchum wrote:
> On boot, Linux sets its system clock from the hardware clock.  Linux can 
> interpret the time on the hardware clock as local time or universal 
> time.  If this is set incorrectly, you can get the problem you are talking 
> about.  see
> man hwclock

Actually, this occurs in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. So, in this script, and
in /etc/sysconfig/clock one can adjust whether and how to set the system
clock.

> At 10:12 AM 7/21/2003 +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have noticed that no matter how many times I reset the
> >date and time on my RH8 server, it keeps falling out of
> >synch, and jumps ahead by about 1 hour. It looks like it
> >has something to do with the time zone, but during the
> >installation I made sure to choose the correct country and
> >location.
> >
> >1) How do I configure my RH8 machine to synch itself
> >     according to an atomic clock on the WWW?
> >
> >2) How do you change the time zone on a Linux server
> >     (AFTER the installation)
> >
> >Thanks, Jason
> >
> >
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> John Ketchum
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