[SWLUG] System clock loosing time

Julian Hall linux at kaotic.co.uk
Tue Nov 16 12:30:15 UTC 2004


Neil Jones wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>The system clock on my desktop has been loosing time for a while but it has 
>recently become ridicululous. I corrected it on Sunday and today It is still 
>showing sunday's date!
>
>Is this a cmos battery problem or something?
>Everything else seems to work fine.
>
>Is there some way of synchonising the computer to a time source on the net?
>
Hi Neil,

Probably a dicky battery.  However if you have webmin installed, one of 
the options is to synchronise with a remote time server on boot.

Kind regards,

Julian



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