[plug] losing time

John Breen locutus at borg.apana.org.au
Mon Mar 4 13:00:47 WST 2002


you haven't told RH that the system clock is set to GMT have you?

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 12:47, Jon L.Miller wrote:
> This PC is on 24/7/365 in Windows 2000 it keeps the time fine.  this only 
> happens when it's in rh72 (dual boot PC).
> 
> Jon 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:41, John Breen wrote:
> > losng time like that is frequently caused by run down cmos battery,
> > particularly if your pc's not on all the time.
> >
> > try teplacing the battery?
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > jb
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 12:32, Ryan wrote:
> > > Rather than fix the problem (which I can't help you with) you can cover
> > > it up by running an ntpdate cron job at some overly regular interval.
> > >
> > > Google will point you to some Australian NTP servers.
> > >
> > > Ryan
> > >
> > > At 12:22 PM 4/03/02 +0800, you wrote:
> > > >I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same , but I'm losing
> > > > time every 2-3 days by as much as 9 hours in rh72.  is there a way to
> > > > fix this permanently?
> > > >
> > > >TIA
> 
> 



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