System & Hardware clocks

[P V Mathew <pvmathew@softhome.net>]

Hello All,

   Why does my hardware clock go slow after every time  I run Linux?

    Evidently Debian resets the hardware clock to the system clock
every time it shuts down. How ever the system loads the time from
the hard ware clock when Debian boots up. If it can rely on the
hard ware clock at start-up why can't rely on it at shut down too?

    Also the time maintained by the system should be more
accurate than the hard ware clock. In my case why is it not so?
Since I have compiled the kernel, I might have missed some
important configuration option?

   This problem has developed recently. I regularly update the sid
version that I am using.

Thanks
p v mathew