clock / system time always two h ahead after reboot

[Member orthodox42]

Hi, new to antix. I struggle a bit with setting the system time.
When I change the time in controlcenter it is again two hours ahead after reboot.
Any suggestions?

[Member ModdIt]

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Did you set correct timezone as well as actual time.

[Member orthodox42]

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Yes, both.

[Member Xecure]

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Do you dual boot with windows? Did you select to use local time or UTC when installing?

Check how the hardware clock is set
sudo hwclock --verbose | grep -i hardware
If it tells you Hardware clock is localtime (the one used by windows),
Hardware clock is on local time
then you also need to set your linux time to use “local time”

sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
sudo hwclock --systohc --localtime

And that should keep the correct time after reboot.

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[Member orthodox42]

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Thanks for the quick answer! What is your time zone? Still awake or already up?
😉
Here is what I got:

sudo hwclock –systohc –localtime –verbose
hwclock from util-linux 2.33.1
System Time: 1634370426.903076
Trying to open: /dev/rtc0
Trying to open: /dev/rtc
Trying to open: /dev/misc/rtc
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

[Member Xecure]

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Strange. What does
sudo hwclock
display (without any options)

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[Member ModdIt]

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hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

Is the BIOS password protected or locked ?

[Member orthodox42]

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No everything open.
Battery?
How can I test the battery without opening the hardware?

[Member Xecure]

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See if this thread helps. It looks similar to your case:
Debian – hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method

Probably after setting this you no longer need to change the hardware clock, but first lets make sure this works.

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[Member orthodox42]

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tried to install acpitool via sudo apt-get install acpitool
Any idea why this does not work?

No error message through install process
but:

acpi -V
bash: acpi: Kommando nicht gefunden. (command not found)

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by orthodox42.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by orthodox42.

[Member Xecure]

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I think it is time we know what version of antiX is installed.
inxi -Fxz

I have acpi work on my system OK.

$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Full, 100%
Battery 0: design capacity 4400 mAh, last full capacity 3663 mAh = 83%
Adapter 0: on-line
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: intel_powerclamp no state information available
Cooling 4: x86_pkg_temp no state information available
Cooling 5: Processor 0 of 10

So either a package is missing or your system needs a different kernel version to get the best out of your hardware.

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[Member orthodox42]

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cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource

gives

tsc refined-jiffies jiffies 

Updating grub with jiffies?

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$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Kernel: 4.9.0-264-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 2.8.0 
           Distro: antiX-19.4_386-base Grup Yorum 20 May 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Sony product: PCG-GRT785B(DE) v: 01 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: N/A model: N/A serial: N/A BIOS: Phoenix v: R0043F0 date: 01/16/2004 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 9 
           cache: L2: 512 KiB 
           flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5345 
           Speed: 2673 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2673 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Sony driver: N/A bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: loaded: nouveau,vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting 
           resolution: 1024x768 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 AC97 Sound vendor: Sony driver: snd_intel8x0 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.7 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-264-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet vendor: Sony driver: sis900 
           v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 00:04.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 2.69 GiB (4.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: DK23FA-60 size: 55.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 10.79 GiB used: 2.56 GiB (23.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home size: 43.14 GiB used: 119.8 MiB (0.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 768 MiB used: 10.4 MiB (1.4%) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   Message: No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
Info:      Processes: 128 Uptime: 55m Memory: 492.1 MiB used: 404.7 MiB (82.2%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Packages: 1255 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.3.06 

[Member Xecure]

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Thanks for the inxi information.
I tried searching for clock problems related to the PCG-GRT785B, but found nothing.

What I did find is that older systems do seem to boot with the wrong time. Some are related to bad cmos battery, but others seem to need to change the time in BIOS for it to pickup correctly on Linux.

I hope one of the antiX forum residents with a lot of experience on aging hardware can give better advise. The only thing I can think of is using ntpd service to get the time from internet servers every few hours, but that is more of a workaround instead of a proper solution.

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[Member orthodox42]

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thank you. I’ ll have a look what I can do in the BIOS

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