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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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