On 07/26/2016 02:07 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/25/2016 11:19 PM, Tim wrote: >> >> I'm still not convinced a PC clock is deliberately designed to run slow. >> My experience with flattening BIOS batteries has been peculiar hardware >> behaviour, can't say that I've noticed the time going skew whiff. > > Don't forget that most PCs are always online, and adjusting their clocks > from the various time servers. Mostly, today, you'd see the clock error > after the computer's been turned off for a while, or at least off-line. > Back when most computers were only online occasionally, if at all, it > was more obvious. > ---> you sure about that? brain is a little cloudy right now, and recall is not supplying file names, but linux and unix use their own time keeping routine. routine counts from 'day 1' and iirc, there are 2 or 3 files, in /etc, that are used to make corrections to the time keeping routine. one of them is name 'adjtime'. do not recall others. -- peace out. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 tc,hago. g . =+= Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+= in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+= -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
