[PLUG] FWIW: linux notebook date/time problem solved
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Jul 10 20:14:04 UTC 2002
After replacing (rather, having replaced) the CMOS battery and the main
battery on my Toshiba Portege 3025CT, the date was still not keeping
current. Using the 'date' command did no good; it didn't hold. Northwest
Computer Support's tech told me that it was probably the clock chip and that
means replacing the system board for about $500.
When I was out of town earlier this week, I noticed that the date was
rolling along, but still read January, 1990. This morning, on a hunch, I
re-read the hwclock man page and then reset the hardware clock. Sure enough,
the system clock -- set by the 'date' command -- followed along even after
reboots.
So the lesson for today is check whether or not the hardware clock lost
its way and needs to be reset before doing anything else. In the grand
scheme of things, it was probably a good investment, after three years of
use, to replace both batteries but they were not the problem.
Hope this saves someone some aggrevation and distraction,
Rich
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