Re: clock skew

Joe (joeja@mindspring.com)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:07:34 -0500


Thanks all,
It was the /etc/adjtime as Tim Hockin had stated, that seems to have fixed the
problem.

> > Maybe I was not clear in my first email or maybe I am confused. The only time
> > the clock gets skewed is when I reboot or shutdown and then have to restart.
>
> if you have a file /etc/adjtime, you may have a drift value that is based
> on erroneous data. If there is a file /etc/adjtime, delete it. Set the
> time (clock -w), delete it again, set the time again. This will establish
> a drift of almost nothing. Now reboot. On reboot most systems that use
> hwclock do --adjust - which looks at your drift value. From here out it
> should work.
>
> Of course, you may just have a bad clock, but I ran into this just
> recently.

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Joe Acosta ........
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