Re: Time changing

From: cjackson (o517375@yahoo.com)
Date: 12/26/01 

From: cjackson <o517375@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:38:30 GMT

On 25 Dec 2001 23:40:14 GMT
Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:31:15 GMT, cjackson wrote:
> > Every time I reboot either Linux (RH7) computer, time jumps
> ahead by 6 1/2 +/- hours in that computer. Does this sound like
> my computer(s) has been hacked? If not, any ideas?
>
> One: wrap lines at ~78 characters.
> Two: 6.5 hours? Strange, according to the headers you're in
> PST, which should be 8 hours away from UTC. I think.
>
> EXPN: PC clocks are usually set to local time, mainly because
> windos wants them this way. Unix clocks are usually set to UTC.
> On Linux, you have a choice. Somewhere in your startup scripts
> there's a UTC variable that controls that.

Yes, I saw the time tool in linuxconf and changed the HW clock
to UT. Maybe this is the fix. It all started when I put a script
 in cron to set time to stratum 2 server using rdate. Now I use
ntpdate which works fine. Thanks, Jackson

>
> The system reads hardware clock at boot time, and keeps its own
> timer from then on. If your hardware clock is in UTC, but the
> system thinks it's in local time (or vise versa), your clock
> will be off by the difference between UTC and local time after
> each reboot (should be 8 +/- DST hours, according to your headers).
> This is the most likely cause of the problem (the other one is
> that your hardware clock is simply off by 6.5 hours).
>
> Dima
> --
> Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD. --
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> "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik
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