From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 01:50:39 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 5F13C10656D4 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:50:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from won.derick@yahoo.com) Received: from n28.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n28.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A15F8FC13 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:50:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from won.derick@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.194.244] by n28.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Feb 2009 01:50:38 -0000 Received: from [68.142.201.73] by t2.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Feb 2009 01:50:38 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp425.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Feb 2009 01:50:38 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 515692.83354.bm@omp425.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 36599 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Feb 2009 01:50:37 -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:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=Yk+9JNhL1RmIZxFg7QlD8A9/w/46lUfMES0rdS6ITbvjaN290o0+KGl8GfSYKVikgTMfvdY91efOZlAIUWBSNjNL5hKJfnLjnQ10cXQLZRomtNptGmUAbO+qF44gkKpBw0Yfyxel1gfxB6e5RWtKCaPQQ6GOclijlRYVKA7vdD8=; X-YMail-OSG: z7US.PsVM1nuNa9wciZ5NUHUURJbNA91iSjFRPRkrUZhDcFQDpVNDVsmXuUIdGNjFevoMFRL1S5mYS4aClf4_wKwBzQuw0omVu4nZd9AqJEo14Y.YJslv_hGyrHIERriIvP5nuR7EAb_gPxxsAvDQ5OUDq4Ag6fkwdrm0eoR3p_w9hZ.j2BQ5uLY_z.5hwURGvzP5_L2jlPMDpwZw8SInUQ15p8- Received: from [58.71.34.137] by web45815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:50:37 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:50:37 -0800 (PST) From: Won De Erick To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <752190.34892.qm@web45815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Cc: 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: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:50:39 -0000 Does anyone know what is going on with my system? --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Won De Erick wrote: > From: Won De Erick > --- 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. Systems Manager > > > Crossflight Ltd > > guy@crossflight.co.uk 07973 797819 > > > 01753 776104 > > > > > >