Re: Setting The System Clock [Linux]

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 10/26/03 

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59:06 GMT

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:58:14 +0100, Gerhard W Gruber <sparhawk@gmx.at> wrote:
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> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:03:07 GMT wrote Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> in
> comp.os.linux.misc with <LRNmb.2931$RQ1.2151@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>
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>>(or maybe that's one of those apps that access the Internet without
>>notifying you or asking your permission....I deleted all of those a
>>good long while ago.
>
> Windows doesn't access internet and it still changed the clock properly. My
> linuxbox doesn't. :( But I think this only because something is not configured
> probably, but I don't know what.
>
>

One of the reasons I dropped Windoze is that I discovered that it was
accessing the Internet all the time without even telling me. One of the
things it was doing was setting the clock.

Following Michael H's clues, here's what I ended up doing:

(as root)

#date --set='-1 hours'

then

#hwclock --systohc #to sychronize the hardware clock with the system clock.

When I re-booted this morning, everything was peachy dandy.

But I have also discovered that the reason I have to do this manually is
that I ripped out most of the locales program.

Don't mind doing this twice a year at all. Could make it a cronjob, I
suppose.... 

-- 
Alan C
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