"Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi all, > > I have a dual boot system with FC5 and Windows XP. On FC5 I run ntpd > with the default config files. The drift file varies widely, from -0.4 > or so to as much as -60 or 100 or more. Generally the longer Fedora is > up the smaller the number, though it's always negative. > > But Windows is losing time hand over fist, maybe a couple minutes or > more in a 3-hour Windows session. I use an old program (AtomTime95) to > correct the Windows clock periodically but it doesn't do any permanent > good. > > I had the same kind of thing happen with Fedora 4. It went away when I > installed Fedora 5 until I activated ntpd. > > According to /var/log/messages Fedora has to set the clock back about > a second or so every time I boot it, but nowhere near the gargantuan > misalignment of Windows. > > Does anybody have any idea how to make these two guys live happily > together sharing the clock? Yes, Fedora does use local time - at > least, that's the way I installed it.. > > Thanks much, > > -- > Lee Maschmeyer > <lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> > > "Be kind to your fur-bearing friends, > For a skunk may be somebody's brother." > --Fred Allen Set UTC=false. ,---- | Setting UTC or local time | | When Linux boots, one of the initialisation scripts will run the | /sbin/hwclock program to copy the current hardware clock time to the | system clock. hwclock will assume the hardware clock is set to local | time unless it is run with the --utc switch. Rather than editing the | startup script, under Red Hat Linux you should edit the | /etc/sysconfig/clock file and change the ``UTC'' line to either | ``UTC=true'' or ``UTC=false'' as appropriate. `---- -- Leon
