On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: > I have never heard of a kernel voluntarily updating the hardware clock, > or anyything at a weird 11 minute interval. I do however set on some > wild-clocked old mobos a cron job to write the HWclock once an hour or > once a day. however if you have NTP synched and a drift file updated by > xntpd, then you don't even need to do that. Likewise. Never heard of kernel writing to the BIOS clock. I am also running a cron job daily to write the date/time into the BIOS clock. --Ariel > > -- > Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast > "If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an > abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently." > -- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work phone: 03-6406086 fingerprint = 07 D1 E5 3E EF 6D E5 82 0B E9 21 D4 3C 7D 8B BC ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
