[PLUG] Kubuntu Time Problem

[tonyr]

(that's the internal backup battery on the motherboard, not the
main battery of a laptop)

-tony

tonyr wrote:
> How old is the computer?  Lost clock setting is usually a sign of a
> dying battery.
>
> - tony
>
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> Aaron Ten Clay wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My mother's computer is exhibiting a strange problem, and I'm not 
>> familiar enough with Kubuntu/Debian to figure it out. Whenever the PC 
>> is powered down, it comes back up with the system clock being hours 
>> off. I'm guessing what's happening is the RTC is being written UTC at 
>> shutdown and being read as local at startup. I installed OpenNTPd 
>> (what I run on all my gentoo boxes and have great success with) and 
>> it keeps the time perfectly synced while the system is on, but as 
>> soon as it reboots the clock is off so far the adjtime syscall fails. 
>> (Seems like 8 hours or so, which makes sense for the timezone 
>> difference)
>>
>> The box only runs this distro (i.e. no windows messing with the 
>> clock) and everything is all up to date.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any insight.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
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