Re: [Pan-users] Hello There (OT)\

[Duncan]

On Sat 25 Jan 2003 16:28, John LeMay posted as excerpted below:
> I think the way SuSE sets the system clock is proprietary. Every time I
> reboot my machine the clock changes to about 6 hours earlier than it
> really is. Still haven't figured out where to change it. Since I don't
> reboot very often it hasn't been a big enough issue for me to go looking
> for!

That sounds like a problem I occasionally have with Mandrake.   I think it has 
something to do with time zone issues, off of UTC, as the others have 
mentioned.  I haven't figured out the details, but my general feel for it is 
that the RTC and the running system clock are set to different times, one's 
UTC while the other is local time, or something.  If I set it and then shut 
down properly right away, the system adjusts it and it's fine for awhile.  
However, due to running the CPU overclocked at 100% (distributed.net) for 
over a year, and the fact I run Nvidia proprietary drivers (so I can use both 
outputs on my dual output Nvidia GF2, as the XF86 NV driver only runs the 
primary output, unfortunately), my system isn't quite as stable as Linux 
systems are supposed to be, and after some of the bad shutdowns, it will go 
back to being several hours off again, until I fix it and shutdown correctly 
to get the good value stored.

IOW, try setting the clock, doing a full, nice shutdown, then reboot, and see 
if that fixes it.

-- 
Duncan
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