[ale] Reverting from ntpd

[Geoffrey]

If it's off that much, you're likely running into a problem with a 
difference in timezones.  You can tell your OS that your bios is set to 
gmt and it will adjust accordingly.  This might be the case.  Unless 
this is a dual boot (Linux and some variation of Windows), it's a better 
idea to set your bios to gmt and then adjust your time accordingly. 
Since I can never remember the difference between gmt and est, I tell 
the OS the bios is set to gmt, check the time on my box when it boots, 
then make the appropriate adjustments.

John Wells wrote:
> I'm still trying to observe, but it seems to be consistently off by around
> six hours.  Another weird thing is that I can set the date using "date"
> from the command line, or using the Red Hat clock applet, but if I restart
> the X server the time is screwed again.
> 
> This leads me to believe it's got to be a setting that's screwed
> somewhere.  I'll take a look at adjtime tonight when I get my hands back
> on the laptop.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> Calvin Harrigan said:
> 
>>Is the time being set, off by a few seconds/minutes or way off by days?
>>If  it's slightly off you might be running into the drift compensation
>>mechanism built into most linux boxes.  The amount of time a
>>(hardware)clock drifts is calculated by the system and is compensated
>>for  every time the machine boots up.  The quick way is to just delete
>>the  '/etc/adjtime ' file.  Read the man file on hwclock for details.
>>
>>
>>Calvin...
> 
> 
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