[Tfug] incorrect time

[Choprboy]

On Saturday 07 December 2002 06:43 pm, Mike Morrell wrote:
>   I have been having trouble with the time on a computer I recently put
> Gentoo on.  It seems that no matter what I do to set the time, after a
> reboot the time is off again.  Here is what I have done.
>
> - during the install I set the timezone
> ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix /etc/localtime
>
> - each time I set the clock I try the following commands
> ntpdate time.arizona.edu
> hwclock --systohc
>
>   The clock will be correct until I reboot at which time it becomes
> approximately 1.5 hours off.  I have also tried setting the time using
> 'date -s' and 'hwclock --set --date' with no change.  I am running ntpd
> but the time is so far off that ntpd shuts itself down (beyond its
> sanity limit for the offset).  Any ideas?
>

I have basically the same problem on my laptop from time to time. It seems 
that setting this system hardware clock doesn't work with some BIOSes, even 
though after setting the hardware clock seems to report correctly. Have you 
tried setting the time in the BIOS settings and seeing if it makes a 
difference? Seems to be the only thing that work on mine.

Adrian