Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
 > BlackList wrote:
 >> I guess I could see 10 minutes (or more) if the time had
 >>  never been set to anything reasonable;  However 10 minutes
 >>  seems really far out for something that was previously
 >>  syncing with NTP servers (or any other source of time).
 >>
 > I don't see what "previously synching" has to do with anything.
 > If previously synching means three weeks ago, it's meaningless!
 > If it means thirty minutes ago, I would expect the clock to be
 > within a few milliseconds of the correct time.  If not I would
 > regard the clock as broken!  I'm assuming reasonably constant
 > temperature!

If over three weeks, a cheap generic RTC gets out by 10 minutes,
  it is broken.  Thats an average of 1.6 seconds drift, in the
  same direction, every hour?

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