Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:57:20 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating and displaying CMOS clock Message-ID: <20140707045720.GA63735@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvggA%2B4%2Bk=M-nmGZtKxsDTQNf3QFM4r9ZB05F4VAMgS7KQ@mail.gmail.com> 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> <CA%2Bg%2BBvggA%2B4%2Bk=M-nmGZtKxsDTQNf3QFM4r9ZB05F4VAMgS7KQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: > > >> 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? Because no matter how often you restart ntp, it does not update the CMOS (hardware) clock. My question was about updating the CMOS clock. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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