>To further confuse matters there appears to be a common misconception on the >web >that the cmos time is automatically synced to system time on FreeBSD. This is >incorrect: see msg03414 on freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org.
The situation has changed in 8-STABLE and 9-CURRENT since the above message was written. The timekeeping code was changed (by the person who wrote the message that you cited) to periodically (every machdep.rtc_save_period seconds) adjust the value of the rtc if ntp is used to update the system time, machdep.disable_rtc_set=0, and the rtc driver hasn't been disabled: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=207360 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=208297 atrtc_{get,set}time, now in /usr/src/sys/x86/isa/atrtc.c, could serve as a basis for your own code: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/x86/isa/atrtc.c?view=markup There are of course *_rtc_{get,set}time variants for other architectures as well. b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
