Re: "Clock Skew detected error"

From: Sujit Vaidya (svaidya75@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 02:10:39 EST


Hi Borek,
        Thanks for your guidence. When i use the date
and the hwclock commands the dates change. But when i
reboot the machine it takes some arbitrary date.
THis time it said at boot time
System Clock: 21 Jul 07:20 EDT 1992
          Any pointers..

THanks

SUJIT VAIDYA

--- Borek Lupomesky <Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz> wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Sujit Vaidya wrote:
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> > Hi Borek,
> > It might be a trivial question, but i
> would
> > appreciate if you could guide me with regards to
> "HOW
> > TO SET THE REAL TIME CLOCK"
> > I changed the date on my machine using the
> > date command. And the kernel compiles fine. But
> when i
> > boot the system it again shows
> > system clock set to JAN **, 1994.
>
> Using the date(1) command:
>
> date --set="Jan 25 7:24"
>
> Then you should write the system clock to your
> CMOS (backup) clock
> using:
>
> hwclock --systohc
>
> Bye Borek
>
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