Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-19 Severity: normal Due to some clock trouble I intended to investigate I looked through the man page for hwclock. There I find: Automatic Hardware Clock Synchronization By the Kernel
To see if it is on or off, use the command adjtimex --print and look at the value of "status". If the "64" bit of this number (expressed in binary) equal to 0, 11 minute mode is on. Otherwise, it is off. So I installed adjtimex and ran "adjtimex --print". Since the output was not clear to me, I looked at the man page for adjtimex, there I see: -p, --print the kernel. For Linux 1.0 and 1.2 kernels, the value is as follows: 0 clock is synchronized (so the kernel should periodically set the CMOS clock to match the system clock) Whereas for 2.0 kernels, 0 is not defined. Since Debian does not ship 1.0/1.2 kernels for a long time, the man page for hwclock looks clearly outdated to me. If you start working on it, it would be nice if you could specify how to *enable* the 11 minute mode again (but I can report this in a separate wishlist bug). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2-grsec-cz01 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurs 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libslang 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii tzdata 2007b-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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