Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

[Laurent PICOULEAU <lcrpic@a2points.com>]

On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 03:37:28PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The
> hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in
> over two months. 
> 
> I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the 
> hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried adjtimex --adjust
> resulting in the system clock losing more than five minutes in 
> a day. Then I tried adjtimex -u --adjust, resulting in the
> system clock losing 20 minutes a day.
>
What does /etc/adjtime contain ? You can copy hardware clock to system
with hwclock --hctosys but you should have a coherent /etc/adjtime if
you want that the two clock stay on sync. 

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