asktime

[Jason777]

Has anyone experienced a 4 hour jump everytime you run asktime, even if you do not input a value for the new time?

Example:
# asktime

Current System Time is Thu Dec 16 12:29:55 EST 2004
Enter new time ([[CC]YYMMDD]hhmm[.ss]):
# asktime

Current System Time is Thu Dec 16 16:29:58 EST 2004
Enter new time ([[CC]YYMMDD]hhmm[.ss]):
# asktime

Current System Time is Thu Dec 16 20:30:01 EST 2004
Enter new time ([[CC]YYMMDD]hhmm[.ss]):

We are stumped and it is happening on all servers that we build. We have googled it to death and SCO wants $300 for tech support on this.

 

[stanhubble]

what timezone are you in? (GMT +- 4?)
what version of sco?
there are some problems with the rtc and some of the newer faster machines.

 

[Jason777]

Well we are in the Eastern Time zone GMT -5, sometimes it jumps 5 hours ahead also, the post above was from a different test. Sco 5.0.7 on a Dell 1600SC 2.4 XEON.
Any ideas.

 

[stanhubble]

we had the problems with a non standard timezone (Newfoundland). we ended up switching them to atlantic and setting the clock wrong. (i should have seen the est in the asktime examples)
make sure your bios clock is set correctly.
i don't know of any specific problems with asktime ( and nothing in sco knowledgebase ). i have seen problems on a compaq/hp 2.8 xeon proliant when the system first boots and it asks for the time, there seems to be some garbage in the keyboard buffer so that it never works on the first try.

does this happen on a remote connection to the system? or just on the console?