[Klug-general] Clock problems

Karl Lattimer karl at nncc.info
Sat Feb 12 13:20:00 GMT 2005


Brand spanking new motherboard, I will try a new battery, and I'm also
setting up a cron job for ntp as a temporary fix.

Bit of a pain though...

Karl,

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:14 +0000, Athon Solo wrote:
> I wouldn't call myself an expert in these areas, but the only reason I 
> can think of for such large amounts of clock drift would be if the CMOS 
> battery is dying, since AFAIK that's what powers the hardware clock.
> 
> Allen
> 
> 
> Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   If anyone can give me a sane solution that works I'll be grateful, my
> > clock drifts, by about an hour every 3 days. always running slow. I've
> > just had a tinker and I've got this...
> > 
> > [root at downtime root]# hwclock
> > Sat 12 Feb 2005 07:56:18 GMT  -0.876199 seconds
> > [root at downtime root]# date
> > Sat Feb 12 11:26:06 GMT 2005
> > [root at downtime root]# /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
> > Shutting down ntpd:                                        [  OK  ]
> > ntpd: Synchronizing with time server:                      [  OK  ]
> > Starting ntpd:                                             [  OK  ]
> > [root at downtime root]# date
> > Sat Feb 12 12:07:08 GMT 2005
> > [root at downtime root]# hwclock --adjust
> > [root at downtime root]# hwclock
> > Sat 12 Feb 2005 06:40:21 GMT  -0.634776 seconds
> > 
> > Its a gigabyte motherboard and a 2.4Ghz p4 HT, I've got HPET,smp,ht on
> > in the kernel and would like to resolve this without rebooting if
> > possible.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Karl,
> > 
> > 
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