Time keeps changin in Linux

[spamsk8r]

I am running the newest release of Gentoo, but I just can't get the stupid time to stay correct. I set it using date, but everytime I reboot it's wrong again. Is there any way to fix this, like make it stick?

Thanks,
Geoff

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Make sure your timezone is correct, and use rdate.

rdate time.nist.gov

I cron that to run once a day.

 

[MedicBob]

Are you dual booting, there have been issues in the past *Nixes and dual booting with Windows and the time settings.

 

[Ynog]

Make sure when you are setting the clock that both the sys clock and hardware clock
are now that new time.

Hopefully someone can remind me the call to set the hwclock to the sysclock or vice versa.

 

[spamsk8r]

I am dual booting, I'll try the suggested remedies, thanks.

 

[sciencewhiz]

how much does the time change each time? Is it random or consistent? Does it only change when you switch from windows to linux or vice versa, or does it change when you reboot from linux and go immediately back into linux?

 

[silverpig]

I have the same problem. Windows changes it and then linux changes it back (8hrs diff each time... it's a timezone setting).

I just use ntpdate to auto sync with an ntp server.

 

[Pabster]

yep, synching with ntpdate will take care of it.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I have the same problem. Windows changes it and then linux changes it back (8hrs diff each time... it's a timezone setting).

Since you are in the pacific time zone, it sounds like linux is set to interpret the hardware clock as GMT. When you dual boot, it should be interpreted as local time to avoid what you are seeing. The procedure for changing it varies between distros.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Are you running Linux on the ECS K7S5A machine? Check/replace the CMOS battery on that board. They are infamous for going dead.

 

[tooltime]

not sure but you could also check with the board mfg to see if the time is handled by a chip which may be bad...could be a long shot but an ibm netvista had that go bad...needed a new board though as the chip can't be replaced