[SWLUG] System clock loosing time

[Neil Jones]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 11:40, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Neil Jones wrote:
> > Is this a cmos battery problem or something?
> > Everything else seems to work fine.
>
> The hardware clock (and cmos battery) should only affect the time whilest
> the machine is powered off - while the kernel is running the time is
> maintained by the software, and then synced back to the hardware clock on
> shutdown.

This may well be the case. I get the feeling that it is loosing time whist 
switched off. I have just reset the time and as the machine will be on for 
most of the rest of the day I will keep an eye on the time and see if it 
looses time before I switch it off.

I don't think I have anything odd running on the machine at all. It is a 
standard SUSE machine the only peripherals are a cable modem and a currently 
unmounted CF card reader. My printer is currently unplugged as I am using one 
of the sockets for my radio.

 
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