what's up with my clock?

[Chris Gehlker]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

> it always gives me the wrong time. the hour goes wrong. it is off by  
> five
> hours this morning.
>
> 	bmike1 at 2[~]$ sudo tzselect
> 	/usr/bin/tzselect: line 53: /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab: No  
> such file or
> 		directory
> 	/usr/bin/tzselect: time zone files are not set up correctly
> 	bmike1 at 2[~]$
>
> this might be the problem.... but why did it not start going off until
> recently? perhaps it has something to do with leap year. it was a  
> day off
> yesterday but the problem with the timestarted a few days ago and I  
> did reset
> the time.

Are you running ntp? If so, what server are you using? Maybe it's hosed.

This will tell you more than you want to know about time:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/NTP.html>
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