in reply to Broken Chatterbox

Apparently the box was reset on Friday. The hardware clock on the server is messed up so the time has to be set manually when this occurs. This accounts for all of the time-related problems people have been experiencing.

vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@cs.hope.edu

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(jcwren) RE: RE: Broken Chatterbox
by jcwren (Prior) on Aug 14, 2000 at 06:10 UTC
    Ummm, like this may be a really dumb question, but why not put a cron entry in to keep the clock set?

    rdate -s rolex.peachnet.edu works for me, every hour, on the hour.

    --Chris

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      Does rdate adjust the system clock or the hardware clock?

      I understood vroom to mean that the system clock is fine (likely uses NTP client) but the underlying hardware clock drifted waaaay off.   This would only be a problem after power-cycle.

      I have the same problem with a Debian box.   Sometime I'll get around to cron'ing this: hwclock --systohc, which should keep the hardware clock from drifting so far.
          cheers,
          ybiC

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