Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:04:52 +0530 From: Shantanu Mahajan <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net> To: stan <stanb@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seting the hardware clock Message-ID: <20030716193452.GA697@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20030714231604.GA27924@teddy.fas.com> References: <20030714231604.GA27924@teddy.fas.com>
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+-- stan [freebsd] [14-07-03 19:16 -0400]:
| ;m struggling with getting the hardware clock (BIOS clock) equal to the
| kernels time.
|
| On my Linux boxes a utility called hwclock is run on the way down to
| synchronize the 2.
|
| The problem I'm running into is that if the time on the system gets to far
| out of date for ntpd to bring it into synch, then I can update the kernels
| clock with ntpdate. But when I reboot the old incorrect time comes back.
From the manual page of ntpdate
-b Force the time to be stepped using the settimeofday(2) system
call, rather than slewed (default) using the adjtime(2) system
call. This option should be used when called from a startup file
at boot time.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Shantanu
|
| I ran into this during some software testing, that required setting the
| clock pretty far off of real time, and it was a PIA to get the machine back
| to the correct time.
|
| How _should_ this be handled?
|
| --
| "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
| neither liberty nor safety."
| -- Benjamin Franklin
|
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