issues with the system clock

eldragon · 2009-12-22 12:03:20

i dont think there was any significant change to the way the timezone or the system clock is being generated during boot.

i know from checking rc.sysinit that the changes proposed the 14/12/2009 in the arch-dev-public mailing list have yet to propagate to an upgrade.

ive checked the pacman log and there is nothing related to rc.sysinit

last upgrade in november:

$  cat /var/log/pacman.log |grep initscripts
[2008-11-17 17:05] installed initscripts (2008.05-1)
[2008-11-17 20:25] upgraded initscripts (2008.05-1 -> 2008.09-2)
[2009-02-13 23:28] upgraded initscripts (2008.09-2 -> 2009.01-1)
[2009-03-08 02:50] upgraded initscripts (2009.01-1 -> 2009.03-1)
[2009-03-10 22:23] upgraded initscripts (2009.03-1 -> 2009.03-2)
[2009-07-18 15:02] upgraded initscripts (2009.03-2 -> 2009.07-2)
[2009-07-20 00:48] upgraded initscripts (2009.07-2 -> 2009.07-3)
[2009-08-24 09:48] upgraded initscripts (2009.07-3 -> 2009.08-1)
[2009-11-07 10:36] upgraded initscripts (2009.08-1 -> 2009.11-1)

the issue seems not to be battery related since the time is off by a day only, or a couple of hours. or...well.. its quite odd.

this is a big issue due to hdd mount times in the future...annoy the hell out of me. ive fixed the issue hackishly using opentp but its run after hdds are mounted.

tavianator · 2009-12-22 13:29:30

Does rm /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime help?

quarkup · 2009-12-22 14:23:03

as tavianator said,

removing /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
may help

also, you may want to install openntpd (open network time protocol daemon) - its a very simple and fast/lighweight daemon which you can setup by reading the wiki

also, if you are runing another OS (windows/etc)
you should have the following entry in the /etc/rc.conf file

HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" # "localtime" / "UTC"

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#1 2009-12-22 12:03:20

issues with the system clock

#2 2009-12-22 13:29:30

Re: issues with the system clock

#3 2009-12-22 14:23:03

Re: issues with the system clock

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