From: Adam Dunkels (adam_at_sics.se)
Date: 2002-12-10 19:26:42
Hi! On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 20:17, Groepaz wrote: > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 18:41, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > You mentioned one hour off, which could mean that you have some > > problem with the timezone, not with the clock running too fast or > > too slow. Is it exactly one hour off, or did you mean "some time off"? > > my rtc is ok, time is ok in win/dos....but in linux the clock would drift, ie > it runs to fast. (after some hours uptime the clock is half an hour off or > sth). and since some of my friends (some of them even know linux unlike me > ;=P) have the same problem i really suspect this beeing a linux problem. > however i couldnt find anything related on the web either.... before i gave > up and use a regular watch instead ;=P) I remember having similar problems when I used to run Linux some time ago. Linux uses some mechanism for managing drifting clocks, and sometimes this mechanism seems to go way off (at least it did for me). IIRC the problem was solved using the manual pages for "adjtimex" and "hwclock" and by fixing one file in /etc. (I don't know if this helps you, but it could be something atleast :-) Cheers, /adam -- Adam Dunkels <adam_at_sics.se> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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