Re: System & Hardware clocks
--- P V Mathew <pvmathew@softhome.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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In my experience, this can be a rather nebulous
"head-scratcher" of a problem. After fiddling with it
for a bit on my fiancee's machine, I just installed
ntpdate and was done with it.
~Z
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