[Wylug-help] System clock drifts a lot

[Jim Jackson]

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

> I'm using a recentish version in Debian unstable:
>
> 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-3
>
> But I'm not really concerned about the ntp aspect, more about the fact
> that my clock seems to be drifting.

It's common. The timing is controlled ultimately by the crystal oscillators 
used for generating cpu clocks etc on your mobo. These are consumer parts 
and the xtal acc. won't be that great. Also xtal freq. varies with 
temperature. However bettter accuracy than 2 secs a day is easily possible.


>
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:29:07PM +0000, imran.javeed at i-ksolutions.com wrote:
>> Felix
>>
>> What version of ntp are you using?
>>
>
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