On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> > My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this
> > might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX
> > uses some sort of network time server to set the system clock. Is there an
> > equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out there?
>
> I'm experiencing the same problem, not only when coming back from
> suspend. ntp-server is doing all kinds of stuff, but seems to refuse to
> do anything with my clock, running ntpdate works. This problem was
> introduced since 2.6 for me.
Plain ntp refuses to change the system clock if it's too far off. Ntpdate
always updates the clock to the correct time.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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