[arch-general] Issue with system time

[Dan Vratil]

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 16:53:44 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > Dan Vratil wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> in last few weeks I noticed a serious (for me) problem with my system.
> >> It simply does not update the date/time after boot up. In BIOS the
> >> time is correct, but when I boot Linux, the system time is set exactly
> >> to time when I turned it off last time.
> >> It's quite annoying to always have to set up the time manually. In
> >> rc.conf I have HARDWARECLOCK set to "localtime" and Time Zone to
> >> "Europe/Prague".
> >>
> >> I was trying to set automatic time sync in KDE System Settings, but it
> >> fails to connect to time server. I use KDE 4.2.70, so it might be bug
> >> there, but it does not bother me, the main problem is that my system
> >> refuses to update (load from BIOS?) time after boot up.
> >>
> >> Any ideas? Thank you very much
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
> > NTP?
> >
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTP
> >
> > DR
>
> Also, perhaps you might need to change the CMOS battery on your
> motherboard.
>
> DR

Hi, 
thanks for the NTP, looks good to me.
It is not a HW problem because as I wrote, the time in BIOS is correct. The 
only thing is, that Linux seems not to read it from there, but resumes from 
where he stopped at shutdown.

Dan

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