Todd Denniston wrote: > > One other bit of info, if I turn off ntpd over night, the clock loses > > time (new battery required?) The various oscillators in a typical computer aren't high-precision clocks. Without NTP you'll have to adjust the time frequently. If you turn the computer off, and when you turn it on again it thinks it's the first of January 1990 or something, then you probably need to replace the battery. > no, unlike MS, Unix system clock uses the frequency ticker on the CPU to > keep time, which is independent of the battery backed TOY clock. > i.e., after shutting ntpd off run: > date;/sbin/hwclock --show;date > then after you have slept > date;/sbin/hwclock --show;date > > I expect the time from the date commands to have drifted as you are seeing, > but the time from hwclock will have drifted differently. > date -> returns system time > hwclock -> returns TOY clock time. When NTPD is running, however, it will inform Linux that the system time is synchronized to a time source, and Linux will then keep the hardware clock in synch with the system time. You may need to run "hwclock --systohc" once if it's off by half an hour or more, but after that it should stay correct as long as NTPD is running. That way, if the system crashes the time should still be reasonably right when it comes back up. Björn Persson
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