[SWLUG] System clock losing time

[Foeh Mannay]

Since you have a cablemodem, I guess you're on ntl. The ntl NTP server
is time.cableol.net - or you may be able to use your default gateway
address to synch ntp with. The default gateway in theory should be more
accurate, but in practice ISTR there was some debate because the routers
weren't meant to give out ntp so it was going to be turned off, but
wasn't, etc etc.

In any case, I don't think ntl time is bang on. It certainly wasn't when
I worked there, but that didn't matter because my home PC exactly
matched the clock on the call centre systems, so I knew when to leave
for work!

In any case, ntp setup on redhat I remember was a cakewalk - I think I
just edited 2 lines of config and it worked. Should be more accurate
than your CMOS clock anyway!

Foeh


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 12:52, Neil Jones wrote:
> 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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