Re: Time keeping while suspended in the presence of persistent clock drift

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Dec 11 2021 - 08:38:04 EST


Joel!

On Thu, Dec 09 2021 at 11:06, Joel Daniels wrote:
> I have an x86 laptop whose CMOS (RTC) clock gains an extra 3.75 seconds
> per day that it is suspended (S3) or off. It keeps time quite accurately
> while awake using the TSC clock source. I use the machine about 1 hour
> per day with the machine in the S3 sleep state for the remaining 23
> hours.
>
> The machine is not usually connected to a network and I do not run an
> NTP daemon (though I do not believe this is relevant). When cold

Believe does not help much for analyzing technical problems. :)

Can you please verify that the problem persists with NTP enabled and
synchronized?

Thanks,

tglx