[Wylug-help] System clock drifts a lot

[Jim Jackson]

On Sun, 11 May 2008, Felix Ulrich-Oltean wrote:

> Hi
>
> I noticed that my PC clock was frequently way out.  I set up a nightly
> ntpdate call to adjust the time, and every night it looks like my
> clock is out by 3 seconds.  Is this something I should worry about?
> What can I do about it?

You could run ntpd and keep you time synchronised to the servers you use. 
Or check out man 1 adjtimex. You can turn a 3 secs per day error to nearer 
1 sec per week with a bit of effort.

>
> ntpdate output (via crontab):
>
> 11 May 03:03:05 ntpdate[11340]: step time server 213.162.97.93 offset 3.492403 sec
>
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