Clock Bug?
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I am using Mepis 6.0, (Updated and upgraded) and ever since we went to daylight savings time, my clock has gone bonkers. I set it for the Boise (Mountain Time, US) Time Zone, and I have Moscow (Russia?) spelled out on the clock readout. Also, I have to set the clock two hours ahead to get the clock to read the correct time, i.e.; it is now 8:17 in the AM here, but in my clock settings, I have it set for 10:17 so that it will read 8:17 on the clock. (I hope this explanation isn't too convoluted 
). The clock seems to reset itself to a different time every so often, a day, a few days, a week .... and it will lose an hour or two, especially if I have to reboot for some reason. I also use BSD once in a while, so I reboot a couple of times a week.
Anyone have any help or ideas on how to lick this problem? It's just an annoyance right now, but it could eventually cause me to reject this distro. I really enjoyed Mepis when it wasn't an Ubuntu clone, but now it seems that I have more problems with it; i.e. kweather, clock, user glitches & problems, K3b, etc. (one user thing has been taken care of, but now another has taken it's place, and I am only working on one problem at a time!). Small problems, sure, but who wants to have a distro that is a constant annoyance? Not me, for one.
I hope that I'm not advised to upgrade to 6.5 (yet another download and burn)to cure these problems, because I don't see that as a fix. I would rather cure a problem than gloss over it by deletion, if you get my drift.
Yes, it is set to GMT Yes,
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Yes, it is set to GMT
Yes, the timezone is Boise.
Now the time is correct, but I will have to check the box for auto-updating (I'm downloading right now, so I can't reboot until tomorrow.) I'll let you know in the AM later .... THANKS!
BTW, keep an eye out, I got another problem ... AGAIN! But I'll put it in another thread/post
Us old fogeys want to learn this stuff too, gimme a break!
Another simple check is to
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Another simple check is to see if the following command indicates the correct time:
$ hwclock --show
Sounds to me that BSD resets
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Sounds to me that BSD resets the BIOS clock.
Set the time in the root account of BSD, if that does not help do the same in Mepis.
I'm not sure how BSD could
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I'm not sure how BSD could have set the bios clock, becuz it was a bum install and is not usable and I haven't figured out why yet. The clock is reading correct now 
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, don't ask me why, unless it was the reboot called for above. It no longer shows the MOSCOW and I don't have to set it 2 hours ahead any more. Whatever happened, I'll take it 
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Thanks for all the help, Rooinek 
Us old fogeys want to learn this stuff too, gimme a break!
Dave_lThat worked, but it
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Dave_L
That worked, but it required root
Rooinek@1[~]$ hwclock --show
hwclock is unable to get I/O port access: the iopl(3) call failed.
Probably you need root privileges.
Rooinek@1[~]$ su
Password:
root@1[Rooinek]# hwclock --show
Sun 08 Apr 2007 05:20:13 PM MDT -0.422840 seconds
root@1[Rooinek]#
Mucho Thanks <|:-)>>
Us old fogeys want to learn this stuff too, gimme a break!
A Couple Things to Check
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There are a couple things to check.
First, is your computer set up to dual-boot into Mepis as well as other OSes? This will be important if your different OSes use different methods to control how the clock is set.
Next, while in Mepis, is your clock set to maintain UTC (Greenwich Mean Time)? If you don't know the answer to this question, here is how to find out. Open a konsole, and "su" to root (enter root's password). cd to /etc/default directory. Within that directory, there is a file called rcS (that's an upper-case letter S). Perform the command "less rcS". Look for a line that says "UTC=no" or "UTC=yes". If it says "UTC=yes" then your system is set to run GMT.
Next, is your system set to get its time synchronized automatically? Right-click on the clock, choose Adjust Date & Time, and enter root's password. Make sure that your clock is set for the correct time zone. If you change it click the Apply button before doing anything else.
Next, up above, is the "Set date and time automatically" checked? If you change it, click Apply again. If you get a warning message, don't worry about it at the moment (more to come). If you have made any changes, click the OK button and get out of the configuration screen.
Next log out. Then restart X by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace. You must first log out, not just restart X, because sometimes when you make changes they don't "stick" unless you first log out. Once you have logged out, then you can restart X and this will reset the time display. Log back in and see what happens.
Let me know what you find out
Jon
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