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Acer Aspire One Clock Adjust

by Tejus Parikh on March 26th, 2009

Since the time change, I’ve been having an issue with the clock on my Aspire One. Everytime it sleeps, the clock is exactly one hour in the past. It wasn’t a timezone problem, since running date correctly showed the time as EDT

The fix for this is to run the follow two commands:

$ sudo ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
$ sudo hwclock --systohc

This will sync your hardware clock to the time from the network time service.

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2 Comments
  1. henry permalink

    I am having trouble with my clock each time it’s will drop 1 hr slow
    what is cause this to do that
    p.s this is a acer 3620 series
    there is a note say run these $sudo ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org
    $sudo hwclock –systohc.
    how do you do that.

  2. Tejus Parikh permalink

    @henry

    These instructions are specifically for Acers running linux. If you have linux, all you need to do is open a terminal prompt (normally found under the system submenu) and type those commands.

    If you’re running windows, try looking in date/time preferences. There should be an option for “daylight savings”.

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