Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:16:03 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating and displaying CMOS clock Message-ID: <20140707161603.41f75457@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20140707141842.GA77559@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20140706153206.GA46262@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20140707130816.32fd9af2@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140707141842.GA77559@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:18:42 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > RW wrote: > > > > > And no, contrary to popular belief, the correction of the CMOS > > > clock does not happen automatically in FreeBSD even if ntpd is > > > running. > > > > Are you sure about that? > > I am pretty sure about 8.4-RELEASE. > > > That used to be the case, but I thought it was > > fixed in 10-CURRENT. > > I really know nothing about CURRENT, maybe you are right and it was > fixed there. It was four year ago, so I guess that was 9-CURRENT, but it was definitely MFC'ed into 8-Stable before 8.4. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=207360 > > I haven't set my hardware clock manually in more than a year, and > > it's out by less than a second. > > My experience is different. In another post you wrote: > I don't run ntpd on that box, just ntpdate hourly. So how do you know what happens when ntpd is running?
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