[plug] Unable to set hardware clock

[Timothy White]

On 12/1/06, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Try giving /dev/rtc 777 perms and see if that helps?  Once or twice I
> have had older kernel versions that just wouldnt play the game.

Still no luck.

>
> ntpdate is deprecated (ntpd can do the same function)
>
> To step the clock no matter how far it is out, add "tinker panic 0" to
> the top of /etc/ntp.conf  Can potentially cause probs when a huge jump
> is done, but Ive yet to have a failure.

I'd prefer to not do that. I believe the -g switch does the same thing.
Ideally though, it would be great to get hwclock to work, because then
when I shutdown, the hwclock can be correct for next bootup.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Tim
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