Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 19:23:15 -0700 From: Jesse Gooch <lists@gooch.io> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating and displaying CMOS clock Message-ID: <53BA0493.1030205@gooch.io> In-Reply-To: <20140707021022.GB58025@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20140706153206.GA46262@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53B9BC4B.4030609@gooch.io> <20140707021022.GB58025@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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Hi Victor, On 06/07/14 07:10 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Jesse Gooch wrote: >>> >>> What's the command to update the CMOS clock to the time of the kernel >>> clock? > > [dd] > >>> >> >> To get around this I've started using ntpdate on boot. You can put the >> following in your /etc/rc.conf: >> >> ntpdate_enable="YES" > > ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" does the same, but it is not an answer to the > question, it is a workaround. > Sure, it's a workaround. Why is it so important to set the CMOS clock if you can just query the current time from a more accurate source on boot? The drift on clocks integrated into computers these days is pretty terrible AFAIK, which is why NTP is so widespread.
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