Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 10:54:47 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating and displaying CMOS clock Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBvggA%2B4%2Bk=M-nmGZtKxsDTQNf3QFM4r9ZB05F4VAMgS7KQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140707034300.GA60208@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20140706153206.GA46262@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53B9BC4B.4030609@gooch.io> <20140707021022.GB58025@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53BA0493.1030205@gooch.io> <20140707034300.GA60208@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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Victor, >> The drift on clocks integrated into computers these days is pretty >> terrible AFAIK, which is why NTP is so widespread. > If the hardware clock is updated maybe daily, I don't expect any > significant drift. If all you need is a daily update, why not a cron to restart ntp once a day? That is a workaround, but as it is only once a day, it is very cheap resource wise. best regards, Olivier
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