[Gllug] Fedora/Dell Clock Problems

[Peter Childs]

On 30/03/07, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
> Nix wrote:
> > On 28 Mar 2007, Dave Cross verbalised:
> >> About a week ago the clock started to lose time badly. It seems to be
> >> running at about half speed (maybe a bit less).
> >
> > Is ACPI enabled? This is a classic symptom of enabling ACPI on some
> > platforms. You could try disabling it but that might break half your
> > hardware... :/
>
> Having checked, ACPI was on. But now it isn't and the problem hasn't
> gone away.
>
> My next plan is to boot the system with a Live CD of some other
> distribution. That should determine whether or not the problem is called
> by some recent Fedora update.
>
> But I'll still be grateful for any other suggestions.
>

Are you running ntp?

If not you probably ought to be.

Motherboard clocks are never reliable and at least if you are running
ntp and your battery's flat, the computer asks the network whats the
time when it boots and keeps it in sync with everyone else.

Even Windows runs NTP now!

Peter.
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