On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 16:39 +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote: > > > > Your settings look fine here. Same as mine, except I am in Melbourne. > > > > Try (as root): > > > > hwclock --debug > > > > and post the results. > > > > It may be the problem specific to your hardware stopping you setting the > > clock. > > > > Also, if you run "hwclock" by itself, does it display the correct time? > > > > You can see the commands executed at shutdown (including the syncing of > > the hardware clock) in /etc/init.d/halt if this is helpful in debugging > > your problem. > > > > Cheers, Ben > > hwclock --debug produced NO error message That's good, but posting the results (output) will make it easier to work out what the problem is. > > looked at the /etc/init.d/halt script, > the command or process is > > /sbin/hwclock --systohc --localtime > > the command line run of this command is ok > but during halt, it failt, showing > > Syncing hardware clock to system time [FAILED] > > i want to try set time in the bios, what key to trigger bios setup? Depends on your BIOS, usually "DEL" or "F2" shortly after the PC is booted. Cheers, Ben
