[aclug-L] Re: Clock problems,

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> i have a similar problem...  on my system, my clock periodically
> advances a minute or two until (like now) it's almost 20 minutes
> ahead! this *seems* to happen when i reboot into windows (which
> was originally set to my wall clock just like linux), but it may
> also happen on reboots from linux back into linux (haven't tested
> enuf to be sure)...

I would suspect a flaky CMOS timer ... low battery or similar. Just
use xntpd and it'll compensate :)  You don't even have to be connected
24/7 ... I use it with my ppp connection; simply run ntpdate once to
get it set, then run xntpd (I tell it to log to /dev/null). If you
don't have a connection to the timeserver, xntpd will complain (and
thus the /dev/null logging), but once you're back up it'll re-sync.

-jeff
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