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I'm a total newb to Linux, I got everything installed correctly. Using mandrake 9.0 right now. The question I have about is my time is always messed up. How do ...
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  1. 04-26-2003 #1
    morpherex
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    help!

    I'm a total newb to Linux, I got everything installed correctly. Using mandrake 9.0 right now. The question I have about is my time is always messed up. How do I have linux grab the time from the bios? I'm not sure WHAT I've done wrong with that part on the installation, it mentioned something about time but I didn't know what to select. It's very annoying but I can mannage. It would be nice to figure out though.

    Thx a bunch.
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    Linux does, of course, grab the time from your mobo's RTC. Are the minutes and seconds somewhat correct? In that case you've probably just configured to wrong timezone.
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    you could add ntpdate along with your favorite ntp server in your bootup-scripts...
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    When I boot into linux the time is alawys wrong. It's off by hours. Right now it's 9 but the clock says 4. I thought there were two clocks, hardware and software.
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    There are two clocks, like you said. The hardware clock (or RTC, real time clock), which runs in its own battery-backup chip on the mobo, and the software clock, which the kernel maintains itself using the processor's time-keeping, which is much more accurate. Since that's erased when you turn the power off, the kernel initializes its software clock from the RTC data when it boots, though.
    But like I said, if it's off by an even number of hours, you probably just configured your timezone wrong.
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    I have the timezone correct, America Chicago I'm in wisconsin.
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  7. 04-26-2003 #7
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    Including DST, wouldn't that be -0500 GMT? That would correlate pretty good to what you said about it being 9 but the clock saying 4. Maybe you've just configured that part wrong.
    Do you have your clock automatically synchronizing with a time server?
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