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#1 2011-09-22 11:13:03
- davephillips
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clock freak-out [SOLVED]
Greetings,
My first post to this forum. I've successfully installed Arch and have been happily using it for the past week. However, this morning an irritating problem popped up: The panel clock applet no longer tells the correct time, it's off by some amount. Ditto for the Date & Time applet, they both show 03:47 when the actual time is 07:04. The timezone is set correctly in /etc/rc.conf, and the clock had been showing the correct time. The date is reported correctly, and I have UTC activated. The system is a dual-boot system, but the other OS is another Linux distro.
I noticed that 'hwclock -u' returned the earlier time, while 'hwclock --localtime' returned the correct time. I would like the applet to reflect the change, but it doesn't update to the fixed time. Neither did the Date & Time applet.
Can someone suggest a fix that will guarantee that this will never happen again ?
Btw, I am trying to retrieve OpenNTP and/or ntp, but it appears that no connection can be made with pacman at the moment.
Also btw: I'm loving Arch, I installed it to replace an aging 64 Studio system (2.6.21 kernel!), and I'm 99% pleased as can be. The remaining 1% is currently reserved until I get this clock issue sorted out. 
Best regards,
Dave Phillips
Last edited by davephillips (2011-09-22 13:37:53)
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#2 2011-09-22 11:31:03
- karol
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Re: clock freak-out [SOLVED]
Open another thread and post the pacman errors.
As for the time, post the output of 'hwclock --debug' run as root and 'cat /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime'.
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#3 2011-09-22 11:39:37
- davephillips
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Re: clock freak-out [SOLVED]
Never mind. I figured out how to use OpenNTPD.
In the words of Pinhead, "All problems solved."
Best,
dp
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#4 2011-09-22 13:48:07
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Re: clock freak-out [SOLVED]
when you find solutions please post them and share them so that it may help others with similar issues. Be a part of the community by giving as much as by taking.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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