Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:50:37 -0800 (PST) From: Won De Erick <won.derick@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware clock is not SYNC'ed with kernel clock by ntpdate? Message-ID: <752190.34892.qm@web45815.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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Does anyone know what is going on with my system? --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Won De Erick <won.derick@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Won De Erick <won.derick@yahoo.com> > --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Guy Dawson <guy@crossflight.co.uk> 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 > > > > > >
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