The date and time setting go crazy[SOLVED]

Question

Hello,
Each time, I boot up the time setting changes. Sometime two hours behind, sometimes five. Even if I set the time and date by using the "date -s" command or kde time setting feature when reboot the time changes.
Any idea how to fix this for good?
Thanks,
jmak
Last edited by jmak (2009-11-20 00:19:17)

Answer 1

Thanks for all the suggestions.
This what happened. From some strange reasons the system clock setting and the distro setting were different. The bios clock was two hours before the distro clock. I adjusted the bios clock to real time—to correct time thinking this will set the disto time to the correct time too. Rebooted and I was put on the commandline with an error message:"superblock last mount time Thu Nov 19 11:41:29 2009, now=Thu Nov 19 10::53:27 2009 is in the future"
Then I entered the root password and did a "fsck" and rebooted. It booted up fine
but the distro time setting was still wrong. Rebooted again and checked the bios clock and it was reset to the distro clock. Both were wrong but at least have the same settings. Then I boot up again and set the time to the right setting in KDE. Rebooted and checked the bios clock which was adjusted to the distro setting—in other words to the correct settings. Now the time is ok. So it seems that the bios setting depends on the distro setting. I thought it was the other way around.
My computer is relatively new, 2 years old, so I dont think this was a battery problem. Also, I have other distros installed and I haven't experienced these kinds of problems with those distros.
Lately, I experimented with a few distros on different partitions, and what I am suspecting is that those might reset the bios clock which caused the inconsistencies in Kde.
jmak