From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 28 23:48:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B59E16A41F for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:48:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5362F43D68 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:48:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0DD5FA5; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21133-09; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [199.103.21.238] (pan.codefab.com [199.103.21.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A76F5CCA; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:48:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20051128234053.GA75541@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20051128234053.GA75541@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:47:59 -0500 To: Odhiambo Washington X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system time "slowing down" ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:48:03 -0000 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