F10: PC clock lacking behind with 20 minutes

[Dan Carruthers]

If your dual booting turn off the  "UTC" as it will throw the time off 
between the two systems.

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> The PC settings are usually stored in the clock chip. If the battery 
> is run down, then the bios settings would be lost and the system would 
> not boot.
>
> The problem is elsewhere. Perhaps the system is used for dual boot.,
>
> Leslie
>  
>
> --- On *Mon, 12/8/08, Patrick O'Callaghan /<pocallaghan at gmail.com>/* 
> wrote:
>
>     From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: F10: PC clock lacking behind with 20 minutes
>     To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>     Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 11:54 PM
>
>     On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Affix <affix at ihack.co.uk> wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >   Have you tried to set the interval when it syncs with the
>      ntp server?
>     >
>     > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Alexander Todorov
>     <atodorov at redhat.com>
>     > wrote:
>     >>
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>     >> Hi all,
>     >> after upgrade to F10 I noticed that the my laptop has begun to show
>     >> incorrect
>     >> time. What I did yesterday is:
>     >>
>     >> 1) Set the BIOS clock to correct time (UTC)
>     >> 2) Boot the computer and adjust ntp, time zone, etc...
>     >> 3) after one day now the pc shows incorrect time with about 20 minutes
>     >> offset.
>     >>
>     >> I've never had such problems with F9 or other distros. Any ideas
>     how can I
>     >> debug
>     >> what's going wrong ?
>
>     Silly question, but could your motherboard battery be run down? It's
>     hard to see how an ntp problem could give you clock drift of 20
>     minutes in only a day.
>
>     poc
>
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