On Jan 5, 2008 8:26 AM, Santosh Dawara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
> The "date" command returns the incorrect time. > > Steps to reproduce: > 1. Set the Linux date/time correctly, > How ? using `date -s` ? > 2. One week later, the clock has fallen behind by around 5 - 10minutes and > has to be reset. > Was the machine up for the entire week since you set the time ? > On running the following commands, I have pasted the output > > *# hwclock -r > Thu 11 Oct 2007 03:19:50 PM IST -0.015928 seconds > * > The hwclock reading is 5 minutes behind time. > > *# date > Thu Oct 11 15:14:58 IST 2007 > * > The date command shows 10 minutes behind time. > If the machine was up during the week, then AFAIK, `date` should definitely show the correct time. Maybe, electronics guys can say more about whether such a huge skew can occurr in timers. The hwclock however can drift and is set to system time at poweroff/reboot.. I am not sure how the 5 min difference between system and hwclock time got created. Is the 'adjust' feature of `hwclock` being used on the machine ? Also, how many times was the test done ? Are you running the OS in a VM ? Best regards, Pranav -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are nothing but a pack of neurons. -- Francis Crick. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
