time off by five hours

n3x · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject: time off by five hours

Every time I reboot my computer, the time is slow by five hours (exactly). Now I'm EST (GMT -5), so I thought that might be the problem, but date shows me as EST and /usr/share/zoneinfo is pointing to the right place. I would appreciated any ideas

Thanks,
james

acasto · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

Check /etc/rc.conf, I had something like that once and had to set the time to Local instead of UTC

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n3x · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject:

I had a look in rc.conf, but there's no time option. Should there be? Perhaps it magically disappeared...

Cheers,
james

acasto · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:00 am Post subject:

The variable should be CLOCK

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n3x · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:04 am Post subject:

Nope, no such thing. I stuck a CLOCK="utc" at the end of the file. We'll see if that works.

EDIT:: seems to be working after a quick reboot, thanks a bunch.

acasto · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

hmmmm... I'm not sure. I'm not using amd64 so maybe something with the profile. Either way here's the snippet from my rc.conf file that shows that:

taurus · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:16 am Post subject:

Yes, there is that option "CLOCK" in AMD64 because I am looking at it right now... :wink:

The default is set to UTC so that's why you are 5 hours off!

taurus

n3x · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:06 am Post subject:

Hm, well that's very strange that mine seems to have disappeared. Oh well, at least it seems to be working right now...

syg00 · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:30 am Post subject:

etc-update ???.

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

maybe you have one of latest baselayouts ( unstable )... location has changed to /etc/conf.d/clock

Old conf in /etc/rc.conf still works of course !

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n3x · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject:

Aha - /etc/conf.d/clock seems to be the issue. However, it is set to UTC (and I assume always has been) yet my problem was only fixed when I added the line to rc.conf...

Zyne · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 334

a better solution (imho) would be to use a ntp-server to set your computer clock...
That's how I do it anyways

works great for all my workstations, and they all have the same time...

just a tip

timmfin · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

Are you dual-booting with windows? Windows like to keep its hardware clock as the localtime (and linux likes to keep it as UTC). So whenever I boot into windows my clock was always 5 hours off (since I'm in EST, 5 hours off of GMT).

n3x · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

Zyne: Yeah, I've tried ntp-date, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I suppose I should try again.

timmfin: I've noticed that in the past and know about it, but I haven't booted into windows in a loooong time.

Cheers,
james

Schmokin · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 47 Location: Salem, OR

I always had the same problem till I set CLOCK="local" in /etc/conf.d/clock, and since I'm west coast I point /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

Zyne · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 334

n3x · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject:

Zyne: Okay, thanks I did a quick search and used the guide on the wiki, and it seems to be working now.

thanks,
james