Hi aphro! On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, aphro wrote:
> as far as i know hwclock is not updated unless the system restarts, or you > update it manually, and ntpdate does not update the hwclock, i have ntp The kernel does sync the RTC to the system clock every 11 minutes if you tell it to (ntpd does), at least in my system. Compile the kernel with "Advanced RTC support" (or something to that effect) so that you have /proc/rtc, and do some experiments setting the date, setting the rtc with hwclock and "date && cat /proc/rtc" while running ntpd and you'll find if the thing is being updated or not. > to, currently its like 3 hours off. Mine is within half a second to GPS UTC, thanks to very bad connectivity... Otherwise it would be a bit more accurate. Ntp rocks :-) -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
