On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > My system clock has been keeping time rather poorly. The > hardware-clock on the other hand hasn't lost a second in > over two months. > > I tried to use adjtimex to get the system clock to match the > hardware clock, unsuccessfully. First i tried adjtimex --adjust > resulting in the system clock losing more than five minutes in > a day. Then I tried adjtimex -u --adjust, resulting in the > system clock losing 20 minutes a day. > > I just want the system clock to match the hardware clock. > Please help.
All I can offer in this matter is that, despite of many hours of trying and reading manuals, I have never ever managed to figure out the system / hardware clock interrelationships with Linux. I have an old computer whose hw clock loses several minutes a day, and with hwclock and friends this should be fixable (since the deviation is known, the real time can be computed from the faulty BIOS clock on power up). I never got it to work and I now live with the fact that I'm days behind. My new computer's hw clock is set to GMT and runs fine. My timezone is set one hour off GMT (Central European), but "date" shows a time that's five hours late. I just stopped caring. --Daniel
