Re: I'm going nuts

[Karl Pearson <karlp ourldsfamily com>]

It will be in your time settings. you can probably run

setup

at an 'su' prompt and select the correct time and date, then verify that
daylight savings time is honored. Make sure you don't have the box checked
for Hardware Clock Set To GMT.

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Mugleston, Brad wrote:

> OK, I give up.   For some reason my RH 6.0 machine at home started adding
> one day (24 hours) to my software clock.   If I look at the hardware clock
> on boot up the correct date and time are there.  If I get into windows the
> correct date and time are there but when I boot into Linux (which is most of
> the time) I'm off by 24 hours (ahead).
>
> I'm not sure where it's messed up.
>
> during the boot process I can see the correct date and time displayed on the
> screen as the boot process takes place then some time after that I get my
> login and at that time something has added one day.
>
> I am using chrony to update my system time from the internet every time I
> dial out.  I started doing this when my computer was on for weeks at a time
> and it was loosing time.  for awhile it was working great.  Then on or about
> the change for Day light savings my clock was off by an hour.  I went into
> timeconfig and tried messing with different time zones (it was on
> America/Denver if I remember correctly).  Well there are lots of options to
> select my time zone and I tried them all.  I don't know if that is what
> caused it or not.
>
> I know Linux keeps a log of how far the software clock is from the hardware
> clock and will adjust that.  This is what I thought the problem was BUT
> either I can't find all the files or this isn't it.  - I've found two chrony
> files that I deleted and both came back after reboot to what they were
> before and I can't find the system file that does the same thing but I
> believe I set it to all zeros.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this and on what time zone I
> should select to get daylight savings working OK next time around?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
>
>
>
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