[SWLUG] System clock loosing time

[Philip Barnes]

Neil Jones <linlist2 at nwjones.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>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?
>
Years ago replacing the cmos battery was a part of life, not done it for sometime now.

Syncing the time with the net is the way to go. Look for NTP, it comes as part of most distros nowadays. 

Or if you have an older distro you could try 'rdate'.

HTH Phil