Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Oct 1997 12:55:12 -0400 | Subject | Re: System Time | From | "Detlef Scholz" <> |
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I had to conpile rtc support into the kernel, then the problem was gone. (i used a mixed setting of clock and hwclock after distribtion upgrade)
:-) Detlef
root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Anthony DeStefano wrote: > > I'm using kernel 2.1.58 and I have discovered that my time is short by > > 4 hours when I turn my computer on. I'm located in central Pennsylvania > > which puts me in the middle of the Eastern time zone (-5 GMT). My CMOS > > clock is correct. > > > > I have been looking at this for about two weeks and have looked through > > all of the init scripts and everything is fine. I noticed today that > > the following appeard at bootup: > > > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-135 > > > > I looked up char-major-10-135 and it's /dev/rtc. Is this causing my > > clock problems? If so is there a fix for it? > > > > -- > > -= Anthony DeStefano =- > > <destefano@usa.net> > > Whadda know, you live close(ish) to me (Lancaster, PA)! Anyway, that likely > isn't the problem. I don't know what would be trying to access /dev/rtc (it > isn't all that old, so I dought that distributition's startup files would be > accessing it yet). However, the system-time-setting dosn't go through the > /dev/rtc code. More likely, you have the time zone set incorrectly. (BTW - > Eastern is -4). > > -=- James Mastros > > --- > Current Bovine Rate: ~5894.11 mkeys/sec > If Keys were dollars, we could pay off the U.S. > National Debt in 14.70 minutes. > -=- http://rc5stats.distributed.net/statbar.html (Tue Oct 21 1997) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Received: from alfw4.turner.com (157.166.2.33) by ccmail.turner.com with SMTP > (IMA Internet Exchange 2.1 Enterprise) id 00231670; Thu, 23 Oct 97 22:20:42 > -0400 > Received: from [194.231.117.9] by alfw4.turner.com > for <detlef.scholz@turner.com> > id WAA23312; Thu Oct 23 22:11:49 1997 > Received: (from daemon@localhost) > by odn.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA27918 > for ds@osn.de; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 04:11:46 +0200 (MET DST) > Received: from nic.funet.fi(128.214.248.6) > via SMTP by ultralart, id smtpdAAAa006oA; Fri Oct 24 04:11:39 1997 > Received: from vger.rutgers.edu ([128.6.190.2] EHLO vger.rutgers.edu ident: root > [port 42541]) by nic.funet.fi with ESMTP id <19669-16472>; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 > 03:34:25 +0200 > Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <974296-475>; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:40:37 -0400 > Received: from du15.lan.ptd.net ([204.186.30.175] EHLO jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org > ident: IDENT-NOT-QUERIED [port 2122]) by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id > <974307-477>; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:21:28 -0400 > Received: from localhost (root@localhost) > by jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA00484; > Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:04:25 -0400 > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:04:25 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: System Time > In-Reply-To: <199710221832.OAA00297@edison.bazooka.net> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971023165841.92G-100000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Precedence: bulk > To: Anthony DeStefano <destefano@usa.net> > From: James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> > Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
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