Subject: Re: Clock problems...
From: The Alaskan Bear (akbear@akbearsden.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 17:03:47 AKST
Well, one thing that I have done with my system is I added a crontab in as root
with the following lines.
*/30 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.alaska.edu 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null
*/35 * * * * /sbin/hwclock --localtime --systohc 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null
What this does is it automatically connects to ntp.alaska.edu and updates my
system time so I don't have to worry about ever setting my clock again.
Ted Montgomery
The Alaskan Bear's Den
(907) 242-9824
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:50:56PM -0900, Greg Hoch wrote:
>
> I am having a problem with the system clock and possibly the power
> saving settings. The pc will randomly go to a blank screen for a moment
> almost like a sleep mode and when it comes back the clock will be 9
> hours behind. The nine hours probably has something to do with the
> Alaska time zone being -9 but I don't think this is a hardware problem
> as it is a dual boot machine and this problem has never happened in
> Windows. I am running Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and using the KDE for a
> desktop enviroment. The hardware is a generic 400 mhz Celeron with
> 150MB RAM. I have checked the power saver settings from the KDE Control
> panel and don't see where it is set to sleep or anything like that. Is
> there anyplace else that I should be looking ? Or does anyone have any
> other suggestions ?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Hoch
>
>
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