[GLLUG] Strange clock behavior

[Chris Bell]

On Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:20:11 GMT you wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 12:52, Chris Bell via GLLUG
> <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a computer running fully updated KDE on Debian Stretch 24/7 with
> > top
> > showing over 99% idle yet the onscreen clock is stopping at random for
> > minutes
> > at a time, with seconds sometimes jumping backwards and forwards. Is
> > anyone
> > else seeing this, or can anyone suggest the cause, (perhaps a failing BIOS
> > battery)?
> > 
> > Hi,
> 
> This is not going to be a BIOS battery problem.
> The BIOS clock is read once at boot time, and then internal CPU timing is
> used after that.
> One way to check this is to type "date" at the command line, and see if
> that jumps forwards and backwards.
> My guess is that this is a bug in the onscreen clock program, and not
> anything wrong with the OS time keeping.
> 
> Also, if the OS time keeping was bad, you would see timestamps in the logs
> jumping backwards and forwards also.
> 
> I don't use KDE, so cannot comment on any specific bugs in it, but I am a
> Linux kernel developer and have written video player (xine) for Linux, so
> understand well how the various clock sources work in Linux.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> James

It appears to have been caused by a partial crash of KDE, I just did a quick 
clean (much less dust than expected) and re-boot and it now appears back to 
normal.
-- 
Chris Bell
Website http://chrisbell.org.uk