time off by five hours

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n3x · Post by **n3x** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:20 pm

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 · Post by **acasto** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:29 pm

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

- Adam

n3x · Post by **n3x** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:58 pm

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

Cheers,
james

acasto · Post by **acasto** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:00 am

The variable should be CLOCK

- Adam

n3x · Post by **n3x** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:04 am

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 · Post by **acasto** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:08 am

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:

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# Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
# Greenwich Mean Time).  If your clock is set to the local time, then set CLOCK
# to "local".  This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/clock script.

#CLOCK="local"

edit: okay, glad it's working

- Adam

taurus · Post by **taurus** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:16 am

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

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

taurus

n3x · Post by **n3x** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:06 am

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

syg00 · Post by **syg00** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:30 am

etc-update ???.

gringo · Post by **gringo** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:50 am

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 !

cheers

n3x · Post by **n3x** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:51 pm

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 · Post by **Zyne** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:10 pm

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 · Post by **timmfin** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:31 pm

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 · Post by **n3x** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:18 pm

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 · Post by **Schmokin** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:40 am

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 · Post by **Zyne** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:24 am

n3x wrote:Zyne: Yeah, I've tried ntp-date, but I just can't seem to get it to work. I suppose I should try again.

it worked right immediately for me!
I'm also using the ntp-server on my windows installation, although I haven't booted to windows in a few months...
However, this avoids the problems between the 2 clocks...
Just do a quick search for ntp-client on this board. You'll find plenty of howto's to set up your ntp client...

just make sure you pick the right ntp-server. I'm using the ntp-server of my isp, so I know my time is right

good luck!

n3x · Post by **n3x** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:42 pm

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

thanks,
james