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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:38:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508301838.43618.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5d1857a0508300717353cd85a@mail.gmail.com>

On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote:
> thanks for the response
>
> So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put
> it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a
> default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean
> ought not to have removed it as it should "belong" to something [world
> , system ]
>
> I may give up on chrony and put a ntp on and see if that cures it,
> though I prefer not to just mask a problem if there is one, could a
> clock slowdown be something as serious as an indication of hardware
> problems?

Not really since your clock is on time after a boot.

Please understand that there are two "clocks" involved. One is a hardware 
clock. The other one is the "system clock" which is software. "date" shows 
the system clock. During the boot process, the content of the hardware clock 
is copied to the system clock. That's why your system clock is correct after 
booting. It also shows that your hardware clock is doing fine. Your system 
clock is misbehaving.

Whatever the reason for its sluggishness, ntpd or ntpdate (using an ntp server 
near you) should solve. Or, since your hardware clock is alright, a simple 
"hwclock -ru" (if your clock is set to UTC) or "hwclock -r" (if not so) 
should do the trick. Let cron execute it every hour or so.

Uwe

-- 
95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software 
developers. - Linus Torvalds

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30  8:52 [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere Stuart Howard
2005-08-30 13:56 ` A. Khattri
2005-08-30 14:17   ` Stuart Howard
2005-08-30 14:20     ` John Jolet
2005-08-30 17:38     ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2005-08-31  9:10       ` Stuart Howard
2005-08-31  9:43         ` Nick Rout

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