On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:37, Ryan Bowman wrote:
Since installing Gentoo the clock seems to bde losing time.
If anyone knows why Gentoo loses time I'd be interested in hearing. Mine does it periodically as well. Seems when I sit there and watch it to see how much it loses per hour then it doesn't lose any, but when I'm not paying attention it does. (It's made me late to class several times)
This wasn't a problem under Red Hat (Gentoo is still better). What methods have you found to be the most effective for updating the clock from the internet, when the computer is only connected once or twice a day, if that?
I just use the ntp-client and sync with tick.byu.edu or tock.byu.edu. I don't know if it runs as a daemon or not so you might have to just run it when you connect.
The problem with this approach is it doesn't change the fact that your clock is running at the wrong speed. A properly configured ntpd won't mind if your not connected, it will just wait until you are and sync you again. ntpd will also adjust your clock speed (time clock, not processor clock) to compensate for the skew so it should get better after a little while on the net.
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