On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:00:41 +0200 (CEST) Alain Guibert <alguibert+ulng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The last --systohc was yesterday night at shutdown. Now 10 hours later, > the RTC has accumulated nearly 5 seconds of drift. But hwclock --hctosys > compensates its biggest part, and is in error by only 12 milliseconds. > There half a second of error would be an issue. It' surely an issue, but it depends on what are you doing with that clock...? Launching nuclear missiles? :-D If not, you can always use ntpdate/ntp to correct the time. Eventually one can have an option to tell hwclock how many msec to compensate. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
