Re: System Time Growing Off

Chuck Carson (chuck@digmo.org)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:26:49 -0600

My problem is not CMOS related, this is a dual boot machine with NT, and
when it is booted
into NT the time stays right on the money. In fact, with previous versions
of red hat (4.2) on
this machine I never had the problems.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: gashalot@gnu.net <gashalot@gnu.net>
To: Chuck Carson <chuck@digmo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: System Time Growing Off

>There is one very easy way to fix this problem, set netdate to sync your
>clock every 2 hours or so. I do this on all of my networked systems so
>their logs are as close to real time as possible. I don't know why it
>would be doing this, as I don't have any real problems, except for the
>fact that whenever I set the date with netdate, and reboot my system, the
>time is just as wrong as it was before netdate (CMOS dosen't pickup the
>changes.
>
>RG gashalot@gnu.net
>
>