XFCE - System Clock Mucking About

KitchiRUs · #1 26th May 2012, 11:03 AM

I'm running a Dell XPS 15, with Fedora 16 XFCE, CentOS and Ubuntu 12.04 on it. Each on a separate partition, with two more for dedicated data storage.

I found that whenever I switch distros, the system clock mucks up. This is not only with Fedora, but with CentOS as well. I haven't noticed it yet with Ubuntu. Basically, if I reboot from Fedora to CentOS, the system time on CentOS is wrong, and once I correct that and boot back into Fedora, the system time on Fedora is wrong!

I haven't set it to sync over the net, since I'm behind a proxy and I'm not sure how to set that.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

***DBelton*** · #2 26th May 2012, 02:48 PM

Is the system time off by the same amount as your local time offset is from UTC (GMT)?

I would bet that you have one set to use UTC and the other set to use local time.

Basically what you tell it when you tell it that system time is UTC is that your BIOS (or hardware clock) is set to UTC, and the applications that need local time convert it. If you have it set where system time is not using UTC, you are telling it that your BIOS (hardware clock) is set to your local time and it adjusts accordingly.

Make certain that all of your OS's are set the same way.

KitchiRUs · #3 27th May 2012, 04:46 PM

DBelton,

I checked with the other operating systems, and they're all set to not sync over the internet, and all set to use local time and not UTC time.
I'm not sure if there is a definite time difference when I boot between two systems or if it is random. I'll check and post back.
Meanwhile, did any of the information I just gave you help?