[Gllug] whoah

[Pete Ryland]

Actually, I have a similar problem with my laptop.  The hwclock is ok, but
when running and not suspended, the system clock slips by some phenominal
amount - so much so that ntpd wipes its hands.  Can anyone suggest what the
root of this problem is and any idea how to solve it?  I'd rather actually
fix what's causing the problem rather than just use ntp or chrony or
whatever to keep fixing the time.

Pete

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:34:11AM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Alain Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:39:19AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:57:27AM +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:18:56AM -0000, will wrote:
> > > > > Yeah sorry, my home PC is dual booted and I haven't worked out if
> > > > > this is caused by Linux, windows or hardware, but I have my
> > > > > suspicions :-) basically, occaisionally the clock slips out a
> > > > > month or two.  Hmmm.
> > > > 
> > > > ntp clients on both OS's may help...
> > > 
> > > I do not think so, as NTP does not set timezone, only time.  If your
> > > PC is set in the wrong time zone, then ntp will not fix this.
> > > 
> > > However if it is in the correct timezone and just wrongly set, then it
> > > will.
> > 
> > Big caveat: if the time is wrong by > 20 minutes it assumes that
> > something is horribly wrong and so doesn't do anything. So get it about
> > right by hand and use ntpd to keep it right.
> 
> I know this reply is a little late, (I missed a large chunk of mail and am
> catching up :-)
> 
> Chrony http://www.chrony.org will make adjustments irrespective and can be
> set to mail you above a certain threshold. 
> 
> Cheers
> Xander 

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