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Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Tonight, I had a serious problem caused by a bogus date setting on
> my linux machine.
> 
...
> I decided to try and synch with netdate again, and guess what?  It was
> displaying one hour behind once more :(

Well, I'd suspect that netdate decided to sync with a timeserver that
didn't know about daylight savings (if you use multiple timeservers
with netdate, it makes a scientific guess as to which one has the
correct time ;) ); also, I think netdate will not adjust your system
time if it's too far off -- not sure, though.

> Is there any way to rid Linux's dependency on the BIOS clock
> for setting the time?

It depends on your setup: on my box CMOS clock is only read during
bootup;  you may have a cron job doing `clock -a` every now and
then.   
I usually write time to CMOS clock right after the call to netdate, 
so my CMOS clock's in sync with linux clock anyway.
BTW, what's in your /etc/adjtime? (rtfm clock(8).)

Cheers
-- 
Dimitri 
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