[ltp] Losing time on a Thinkpad 770.

Burkhard Woelfel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:54:31 +0100


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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 15:21, Robert Svoboda wrote:
> * Luis Lebron <lr.lebron@comcast.net> [2004-02-10 19:44]:
> > I have a Thinkpad 770 running RedHat 9.0. If I set the clock and the
> > machine "hibernates" it loses 6 hours. I have set the timezone to CST.
> >
> > How can I fix this?
>
> You can run
>
> ntpdate time.server.com
>
> if you have ntpd package installed.
>
> Or you have to synchronize your linux system time with
> hardware clock (if this one is right) in your computer,
> this is done by this:
>
> hwclock --hctosys
> (I guess, see man page)

The option should read

=2D --systohc


Regards,=20
=2D - Burkhard

>
> It's probably good idea to run this everytime you go from
> suspend/hibernation automatically, if you have apm, this can
> by done through apm events - I didn't set this yet.
>
> Robo
>
> --
> Robert Svoboda
> svobodar@fusemail.com

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