On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:36:43PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Lars Nooden <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've got a small system running 5.2-stable and the clock seems off. NTP > > is making entries like this on startup: > > > > Jan 31 10:15:31 net5501 ntpd[20060]: adjusting local clock by 93.846882s > > > > I've looked around in the mail archives for various mailing lists and have > > the impression that a proper shutdown (using shutdown) will sync the > > hardware clock. > > The shutdown(8) command doesn't directly sync the RTC; boot(9) does. > You need to perform an actual halt or reboot for this to happen. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
And remember ntpd takes it's time to adjust the clock. Set the clock once by hand or use rdate once if you are impatient. -Otto