Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:51:45 +0100 From: Mario Hoerich <m@MHoerich.de> To: Kevin Smith <smithcam@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system time mysteriously changes Message-ID: <20041229185145.GA38358@Pandora.MHoerich.de> In-Reply-To: <41D23B31.2030907@adelphia.net> References: <41D23B31.2030907@adelphia.net>
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# Kevin Smith: > I'm having a problem with my system clock. The time will be fine for a > few days, then all of a sudden, I will notice that it has jumped ahead > by a number of hours (usually enough to change the day to the next day). Does the number of hours vary or is it constant? > Any ideas on what could be wrong ? I also have ntpd running, which I > used as an attempt to keep the clock set correctly (in effort to find a > solution to the problem), but it does not appear to be able to handle > correcting the time. Could you check which timezone the "advanced" time is displayed in? Sounds like some application assumes -say- UTC instead of PST. Obviously, even ntp couldn't fix that, since the time is actually valid (just not your current localtime). It's just a shot in the dark, though. HTH, Mario
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