I've hosed my clock setup

[Jean Sagi]

You are not alone... It is happening to me exactly as you describe...

I was playing with webmin and turning off some initialization scripts... 
I think the absense of one of them is the guilty.

Chucho!

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I don't know what I did the last time I went to adjust my machine's
> clock, but it seems Linux no longer talks nice to the hardware clock.
> Every time I boot, the clock is off by 7 hours, and for my setup
> thats usually once a day (no fault of Linux, I just have to shut this
> off at night).
> 
> The system is RH 7.3, and the contents of /etc/sysconfig/clock are
> 
> ZONE="America/Los_Angeles"
> UTC=false
> ARC=false
> 
> I keep the hardware clock in local time because I dual-boot to other
> OS-es once in a while.  Here's what it looks like:
> 
> [root at treat rc.d]# /sbin/hwclock -r
> Fri 15 Aug 2003 07:53:56 AM PDT  0.849306 seconds
> [root at treat rc.d]# /sbin/hwclock -r --localtime
> Fri 15 Aug 2003 07:54:12 AM PDT  0.268908 seconds
> [root at treat rc.d]# /sbin/hwclock -r --utc
> Fri 15 Aug 2003 12:54:18 AM PDT  0.280746 seconds
> [root at treat rc.d]#
> 
> However, on each reboot KDE's clock in the panel, and the 'date'
> program both report time as if I used UTC; in the above example
> that was 12:54 AM.
> 
> I'm baffled and sleepless in California.....
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
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Atte,


Jes?s Antonio Santos Giraldo
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