Re: System & Hardware clocks

[Ryan Emerle <emerle@gmail.com>]

If you just want to stop debian from touching the HW clock, you can add 

HWCLOCKACCESS=no 

to /etc/default/rcS.

Though, i think your best bet is to just sync your time with an NTP server.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 21:06:01 +0530, 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?
> 
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Ryan Emerle