what's up with my clock?

[Michael Havens]

it's probably the battery.... after all, it is 10+ years old!

On Monday 03 March 2008 1:45 pm, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> 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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