From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 14:37:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1A0106568C for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:37:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from won.derick@yahoo.com) Received: from n22.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n22.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 135068FC24 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:37:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from won.derick@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.200.227] by n22.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Feb 2009 14:37:16 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.73] by t8.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Feb 2009 14:37:16 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp425.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Feb 2009 14:37:16 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 668580.99677.bm@omp425.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 20571 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Feb 2009 14:37:16 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=gNv/c9s30+WMkbLBo9B/0SotQFHsz/680gspEr60k0u2j3OZg74a6uaZGxCduSKKGP6B0fz6ZuywOcRWfwRDPyyRP7u/UN3wbtfuFI7I1GXPsvwJAs2u6WRGGUjfCb/+ZowyPXK3dW/hDjrpjFS8iijnu7Hi+s4Wo8u78NOt23E=; X-YMail-OSG: jCOoyyUVM1ljyVr58Et.IH2HiFe6bvVqFSIyOgxtNQFW.oqohi5zlJA276Lc4wHZgGPoViwt7FFri2HjMDWl.DM_Nb3MhyJhIBdrw9vU4h1lCcSlWLHZmHylDfHsmqOuj0KMJaHhjVKoaASCYdJPf9py1DusFX_5s7tsjkaP1_mMvfjpnuJGGNzhzA-- Received: from [58.71.34.137] by web45809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:37:15 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:37:15 -0800 (PST) From: Won De Erick To: Guy Dawson In-Reply-To: <49942F54.4040201@crossflight.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <167460.20536.qm@web45809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware clock is not SYNC'ed with kernel clock by ntpdate? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: won.derick@yahoo.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:37:17 -0000 --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Guy Dawson wrote: > Does the hardware clock show the correct UTC time? > > Your time zone appears to be PHT but the harware clock > should be keeping UTC time. This is what I only saw in the BIOS config: System Time 07:43:50 System Date Thu 02/12/2009 No setting for time zone. > > Guy > > Won De Erick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've done the following procedure to verify the > unstable date/time being recorded in the hardware clock. > > > > I'm using IBM x343 with FreeBSD 6.2: > > > > 1. Rebooted the box. Entered a wrong date/time as: > > Date: December 1, 2008 > > Time: 12:00:00 > > > > 2. When the box was UP'ed, displayed the date (the > box is sync'ed with an NTP server during start-up). > > #date > > Thu Feb 12 15:37:57 PHT 2009 > > > > It seems correct. > > > > 3. Change with a wrong date/time again, then > displayed. # date 0812301200 > > Tue Dec 30 12:00:00 PHT 2008 > > # date > > Tue Dec 30 12:00:14 PHT 2008 > > > > It seems correct. > > > > 4. Synchronized the date/time with an NTP Server. > Then, displayed the date. > > # ntpdate ph.pool.ntp.org > > 12 Feb 15:40:59 ntpdate[3094]: step time server > 202.92.128.201 offset 3814728.167216 sec > > # date > > Thu Feb 12 15:41:33 PHT 2009 > > > > It seems correct. > > > > 5. Rebooted the box, then verified the system > date/time at the BIOS config. System Time 07:43:50 > > System Date Thu 02/12/2009 > > > > Wrong TIME? I think the hardware clock was not > properly SYNCed with the kernel clock. I've verified > this with other box, and same thing happened. > > > > Is there any issues on using date and ntpdate? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Won > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Guy > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Guy Dawson I.T. 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