My clock settings are always keeping out of date, how can I fix this bug? Can anyone help me?
I’m using opensuse 11.2 with Gnome desktop
Thanks in advance
Are we talking ‘Clock’ time
or ‘Clock’ date?
Or both?
How is it out of date? Describe the problem. Do you dual boot with windows?
Both time and date keeps getting out of date. Imagine that now is 23:45 and the clock displays a completly different time; I get to update both time and date but some time later the time will just get another time. In other words, no matter how many times I adjust the clock it just gets delayed
I dont use Windows, only opensuse 11.2
Thanks
Are you set to use UTC and NTP?
Yast - system - Date and Time
In case your computer is online: enable ntp. Add two or three time servers. Yast has a function to do this.
Another thing that you might want to check is whether your BIOS/CMOS battery is still ok. This is usually a small Lithium battery that sits on the motherboard. If it is a laptop, then it is more complicated.
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:41:44 GMT
Dr Salgueiro <> wrote:
>
> Both time and date keeps getting out of date. Imagine that now is
> 23:45 and the clock displays a completly different time; I get to
> update both time and date but some time later the time will just get
> another time. In other words, no matter how many times I adjust the
> clock it just gets delayed
Does this happen when you power off and reboot, or while running
continuously? Do you hibernate the machine? Suspend to ram?
Notice that if the system is always on, no suspend or hibernate, and
the clock goes wrong, ntp will not help you (nor replacing the
battery) - sorry to contradict others. Wish I were wrong. I believe ntp
will quit, but learning if it does would be good to know, so try it.
There are tricks, but I believe it is either a (non solvable) hardware
problem or a kernel bug.
> I dont use Windows, only opensuse 11.2
Good, it is easier to diagnose then. No other linux, just one 11.2
install?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:41:44 +0000, Dr Salgueiro wrote for a reply:
> Both time and date keeps getting out of date. Imagine that now is 23:45
> and the clock displays a completly different time; I get to update both
> time and date but some time later the time will just get another time.
> In other words, no matter how many times I adjust the clock it just gets
> delayed
>
> I dont use Windows, only opensuse 11.2
>
> Thanks
I had a problem like this. Turned out to be a mis-match between my
hardware clock and the NTP timer. Hardware clock is set to my local time
but the YaST2 System Time (clock, time zone settings) indicated that the
Hardware clock was set as UTC time. The NTP timer would reset +4 hours
and all reboots set the Hardware clock to system clock time.