Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:47:59 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system time "slowing down" ? Message-ID: <B76E7C82-CF94-4715-A8D7-DA792B888E51@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20051128234053.GA75541@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20051128234053.GA75541@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > For some time now, I have noticed that the time on my system keeps > lagging behind. I reset it with `date 2005MMDDHHMM` but after a few > days I see that it's lost quite some hours again? > > What should I suspect? CMOS battery has been changed, but phenomena > is still there. My localtime is set to correctly using sysinstall > so I don't doubt it. If your hardware clock loses hours over the course of a few days, the CMOS time-of-day clock is probably broken. Is ntpd able to keep your clock sane? What does "sysctl kern.timecounter" say? -- -Chuck
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