System will not set-up time

sabashuali

sabashuali

Ani Ma'amin
Hi all you crazy Linux users....

Fresh new installation of Debian Lenny on my desktop.
Every time I start the system it tels me that the system could not set the time to - here it will state a time which is way, way off the mark. The date is correct but the time is not.

Then after the system loads the desktop, I can see that the time is set to UTC, e.g. one hour ahead...

I have set the time zone a number of times and the time as well but every time I start the PC - the same problem. It is like Lenny forgot....
The BIOS clock by the way is fine and states the correct time and date.

Any ideas?

Cheers ya'll for looking!
 
Anti-Trend said:
Use the tzconfig utility as root. Check out the Debian manuals for more info.
Click to expand...

Did not really work.... I think there is a bug but I cannot remember all the various pages I visited trying to understand why this will not work....

AAAnyways I read somewhere that this problem (the system times out waiting for a tick from the HW clock) is fixed in 2.6.25 so I tried and everything is back to normal again. Only to remember that it is not much recommended for noobs like me to use odd Kernel versions...... :doh:

The only way to get sense of my HW clock (in 2.6.24) is by issuing the --directisa option. I thought maybe to add it in the hwclock.sh script but got scared..... :(

Anyway, all is well so far with the new Kernel so I'm just going to drop this...
 
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