Re: System Time Growing Off

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:22:02 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 gashalot@gnu.net wrote:

> There is one very easy way to fix this problem, set netdate to sync your
> clock every 2 hours or so. I do this on all of my networked systems so
> their logs are as close to real time as possible. I don't know why it
> would be doing this, as I don't have any real problems, except for the
> fact that whenever I set the date with netdate, and reboot my system, the
> time is just as wrong as it was before netdate (CMOS dosen't pickup the
> changes.
>
> RG gashalot@gnu.net
>
After using netdate do `clock -w`. That will fix CMOS.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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