Re: ntp problem
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote:
> It depends upon the motherboard but most won't draw battery power
Lithium cells don't age just because you drain them, they will also degrade
with time. The fact that they're *always* being drained due to the leakage
current _inside_ the cell (which is really small, but it is NOT zero) also
helps the aging, of course.
> Utilities such as NTP are really good at adjusting the counting per
> second to tune the OS view of time to be very accurate. If that isn't
> working then I suspect some other problem. Such as two daemons
> fighting each other both trying to adjust the clock. Or some other
> failure.
Ideed. If "ntpd -g" manages to step the clock (initial sync) but loses
synchronization later, that's a problem that is unrelated to the hardware
clock/RTC.
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