System clock won't stay set

[mram19]

Everytime I shut down my system, the clock goes back to January 19, 1999.

I reset it each time using "date", but it never stays set after a shutdown.

Am I using the wrong config tool, or is there some other problem, like that little battery on my motherboard?

[bdg1983]

Is the date set correctly in the BIOS?

Any other os installed on your system that has the same problem?

[XxMaCaBrExX]

your motherboard's onboard battery is probably bad. Just go buy a new one from Radio Shack. Just a watch battery. ;)

[mram19]

Hmmm...I'm going to go try the new battery. I don't have another OS installed, and I've never messed with a BIOS, so I'll try the battery first. Thanks!

[Strike]

Actually, I may have a solution, or I may have a more complex problem. For some stupid reason I accidentally set my time zone up as UTC when setting something up a while back. So, when I ran tzconfig to fix it, I put it to CST (what it should be). But now my clock is always 6 hours off each time I restart. So, I do date followed by hwclock --systohc and all is well for that session. But then it resets again ... wtf?

[whitehorse]

I had the same problem as strike running mandrake 7.0 ....tried resetting the timezone in the Drakconf utility, but after a reboot it went back to the UTC timezone. I solved it by shutting down X and running linuxconf from the command line.

[dukeman]

battery is dead...
could get worse..
my old 486 when battery died lost the bios setup for hdd... before the days of good old auto detect. and there was no sticker on drive.. Never did get that machine running again.. MUAHAHAHA

Dukeman