Sharing XP and Gentoo on my system messes up system time.

GreazyMF · n00b Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 11

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem as me. I have a dual boot laptop (XP and 2.6.9-gentoo-r9). Whenever I boot into Gentoo after having been in my XP partition, my system clock is off by 2 or 6 hours.

I noticed that the time is off in XP when I first boot it up, but XP "corrects" itself.

I am in Minneapolis MN, USA. That is in the Central Standard Time Zone. I had made a link in /etc/localtime before I built the kernel like so:

nyteryda · Guru Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 337 Location: London

are you usually connected to the internet when you boot up ? because you could try using ntp
Which checks a servers time and automatically corrects your clock at boot time
you should also remake that link.
also is XP set to the correct time zone ?
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Taladar · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:

If you don't want dual-boot to mess with your time you should change

ebrostig · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject:

I always run ntpclient at startup to sync the clock on my machine with a known timesource.

emerge ntp
should get you going...

Erik
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GreazyMF · n00b Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 11

Hey all,

Thanks so much for the fast responses. Unfortunately, I am not always connected to a network at bootup, so I don't think that ntp is "the" solution.

I am interested in the post by Taladar however, I don't have a file named /etc/conf.d/clock. Is that file part of a specific package?

Thanks,
--Greazy
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Dgege · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 59

IT's actually in /etc/rc.conf
Try it.

GreazyMF · n00b Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 11

Thanks Dgege,

I've made the change and will give it a test here shortly.

--Greazy.
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Boris27 · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:29 pm Post subject:

rc.conf will do the trick.

dont forget to remove /etc/adjtime after you change that value, and reboot.

should be working fine... (to think it took me the thick end of a year to figure this out....:S)
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mcdermottpa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 95

It's been awhile since I used windows but I was almost sure you could set it to use UTC as well. So I did some searching and found this gem that explains the problem. http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/02/224672.aspx . Every time someone asks me why I don't use windows any longer I think of things like this.
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