Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 10:00:40 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procedure to adjust clock drift? Message-ID: <19971224100040.34417@wakky.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199712241354.IAA04331@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 08:52:37AM -0500 References: <199712240726.XAA07267@dog.farm.org> <199712241354.IAA04331@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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[moved to -chat for my own good :)] On Wed, Dec 24, 1997 at 08:52:37AM -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > > > In article <199712232054.NAA24318@harmony.village.org> you wrote: > > > In message <199712231738.JAA01502@rah.star-gate.com> Amancio Hasty writes: > > > : Does anyone have a procedure to adjust the clock drift in a PC? > > > > > ntp? > > > > > It is already in the tree as xntpd and friends... > > > > of course; the problem with PCs is that they, unlike, say, sparcs, > > can gain few seconds in a day... > > > > I have an SGI Challenge S that just started losing about 40 minutes a day > about a week ago. It's not just a PC problem, though PC clocks tend suck > in general. My SGI's are highly reliable with that one exception, and > that one worries me, but hey, that's what backups are for. Makes me wonder if SGIs use Mostek (now SGS-Thomson) Timekeeper clock/RAM chips, like Sparcs do...when the battery starts to go on a CMOS clock chip like that, you can expect to lose a LOT of time...and eventually it'll just stop updating. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code
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