Re: clock falling behind 2-3 minutes every hour!

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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Dave Sherman wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 14:06, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Roger wrote:
> >
> > > Around Mon,Jan 27 2003, at 10:36,  Dave Sherman, wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I've been googling this topic with little success, so I am now querying
> > > > the list. I have had two laptops with RH 8 installed, and on both
> > > > systems, the clock seems to fall behind the actual time by 2 or 3
> > > > minutes every hour.
> > >
> > > Do you have the battery applet running?  It caused time loss for me.
> >
> > See Red Hat Bugzilla 74645 and 64772.  Also, Gnome Bugzilla 88553 and
> > 93875.  This seems to be a really messy problem, and I don't know if the
> > correct component has even been identified yet.  The Red Hat bugs have
> > been around for a while, but are still marked "NEW".
>
> Thanks. For the time being, I guess I'll have to do without the battery
> applet.

I use adjtimex to compensate for the loss of time.  It takes some fooling
around to get it right, as the corrections suggested by adjtimex are a bit
off.

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs@clemson.edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs



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