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  From: Adam Crawford <ca@granite.net.au>
  To  : Nick Morrison" <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>, "Weidner, Paula" <pmweidne@subcorp.com.au>, "'Peter Gossner' <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
  Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:26:14 +0930

Re: System Time

use this..

/usr/bin/rdate -s www.bom.gov.au
(note this is for south australian time)
I put it in with my logrotate cron that gets done everyday.

Regards,
Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Morrison" <nickm@bhwb.nsw.gov.au>
To: "Weidner, Paula" <pmweidne@subcorp.com.au>; "'Peter Gossner'"
<gossner@arcom.com.au>
Cc: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:39 PM
Subject: RE: System Time


: Lol  and me too :)
:
: My clock drifts substantially - I've just kinda assumed it's a hardware
: problem and I just fix it every so often.
:
: I used to get messages like..  RTC:  Cannot update from 59 to 0   or
: something - I posted about it a while ago.
:
: No solution tho :/
:
: Nick
:
:
:
:
:  > Glad to hear I'm not the only one!!! My kernel version is the same but
:  > Redhat 6.0. Hopefully someone out there knows the cause!!!
:  > To begin with I thought it must have slowly lost time during the day
and
:  > must be some sort of system drift but have since discovered
:  > after reading up
:  > on hwclock etc. that it appears to lose the half hour some time
:  > between 4pm
:  > and 8am. As I said previously, I don't have any time daemons or
otherwise
:  > running to my knowledge so don't know where the reset is coming
from!!!!
:  >
:  > Paula
:  >
:  > -----Original Message-----
:  > From: Peter Gossner [SMTP:gossner@arcom.com.au]
:  > Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2000 6:26
:  > To: Weidner, Paula
:  > Subject: Re: System Time
:  >
:  > "Weidner, Paula" wrote:
:  >
:  > > Morning,
:  > >
:  > > The system time on my PC running RedHat 6.0 appears to lose 30
:  > minutes
:  > > overnight. I have checked using hwclock and the RTC and it is
:  > correct UTC. I
:  > > cannot find any cron jobs or otherwise that appear to be resetting
:  > the time.
:  > > I do not have xntp or ntp running so its not being reset by that
:  > either. Any
:  > > help would be appreciated.
:  > >
:  > > Thanks,
:  > > Paula Weidner
:  > >
:  > > --
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:  >
:  > Yeh me too me too..
:  > RedHat 6.1
:  > kernel 2.2.12
:  >
:  > Probably something remarkably dumb ... but have  also checked most
:  > of the above
:  > and no Joy...
:  >
:  > Mind you I haven't had a good look at all those boot scripts yet.
:  >
:  > Peter.
:  > Woodside South Australia
:  >
:  >
:  >
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