Bug#51376: marked as done (hwclock goes berserk!)
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From: Michael Babcock <michael@kanji.com>
Subject: hwclock goes berserk!
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hwclock just returns crazy, random looking values on one of our
machines. Is this a hardware or software problem? Consider:
beavis:~# date
Sat Nov 27 02:37:21 PST 1999
beavis:~# hwclock --utc --systohc
beavis:~# hwclock --utc; date
Tue Dec 21 16:03:00 1999 -0.009666 seconds
Sat Nov 27 02:37:29 PST 1999
beavis:~# hwclock --utc; date
Sat Dec 2 02:13:10 2000 -0.306338 seconds
Sat Nov 27 02:37:33 PST 1999
beavis:~# while true; do hwclock --utc; done
Sat Jan 2 16:26:00 2010 -0.533297 seconds
Mon Nov 21 02:13:50 2011 -0.985445 seconds
Sun Nov 24 16:25:02 2019 -0.985337 seconds
Wed Jan 3 02:15:54 2018 -0.985479 seconds
Tue Nov 5 02:04:04 2019 -0.985354 seconds
Fri Nov 4 02:15:04 2011 -0.985470 seconds
Sun Oct 7 03:02:17 1990 -0.985305 seconds
Wed Sep 30 03:35:58 1998 -0.985446 seconds
Tue Dec 4 02:34:58 2018 -0.985375 seconds
Sun Nov 7 02:00:00 1999 -0.985405 seconds
Mon Nov 1 02:00:01 1999 -0.985396 seconds
Wed Dec 20 02:38:02 2000 -0.985411 seconds
Wed Sep 29 17:00:01 1999 -0.985444 seconds
Sun Nov 4 16:08:04 2001 -0.984917 seconds
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Subject: Re: Bug#51376: hwclock goes berserk!
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:48:48 -0700
From: LaMont Jones <lamont@security.hp.com>
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This certainly appears to either (1) have been fixed sometime in the past
2+ years, or (2) be a hardware problem.
Closing the bug.
lamont
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