Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #4223

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
2 Aug 1999 12:18:37 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990729192319.362G-100000@invisible.eskimo.com>
By author: Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Since there is some variation, it would be good for the software to
> include a tweekable fudge-factor so that with experience of whether the clock
> looses or gains a small amount each day, the fudge factor can be adjusted to
> compensate, so that given a crystal that is off by a constant amount, once
> adjusted the clock will keep time.
>

RTFM(adjtimex), RTFM(xntpd)

-hpa

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