Time sync is foobar

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Mon Aug 15 23:17:10 UTC 2011


On 16/08/11 02:08, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 11:05 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 08/15/2011 08:52 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> This morning, the time is once again off.  It appears that ntp is not
>>> synching time.  I see nothing unusual in /var/log/messages.
>> Is it running fast or slow?  If it's slow, it could simply be that your
>> CMOS battery is getting low.  Modern mobos are designed to do this as a
>> warning.
> It's running slow and I suspect the mobo battery is darn close to dead.
>   I'll check that out.
>
OT - I have a problem between ubuntu 11 and Fedora 14, Fedora never 
shows correct time, it's system time is 10 hours wrong because it will 
not select the correct time zone. Ubuntu is correct.
Roger


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