From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 10:25:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA28696 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:25:53 -0700 Received: from mpp.minn.net (mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA28689 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:25:50 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA12637; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:26:02 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199507241726.MAA12637@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: Problem keeping accurate time To: fclark@cixs.org (Fred Clark Jr.) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:26:02 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199507241648.LAA00186@cixs.org> from "Fred Clark Jr." at Jul 24, 95 11:48:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1011 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Fred Clark Jr. wrote: > > Hello All, > > I've been trying to figure out why after 12 or more hours of > operation, the date and time are off. For example when I initially boot > the system, the date and time is current to that of the bios and my > watch, but after running for sometime I check the date an the time, it's > off by atleast 5 hours. I notice this incident after I created a file, > and it had the next day's date stamped on it; it was only 10 pm. > Any clues as to how this problem can be correct? Was there > something in my initial configuration that I should of done, to assure > the accuracy of the system's clock? Oddly enough, your mail headers indicate that you are in a timezone that is 5 hours offset from GMT. Have you run "tzsetup"? Are you using a GMT or localtime CMOS clock? And is /etc/localtime readable to the world? Or does the clock slowly drift over time? -- Mike Pritchard mpp@mpp.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"