Does FreeBSD do that or do I have to look for an option in the BIOS? ---- Andrei Cojocaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrei Cojocaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Darren Pilgrim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:18 AM Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles
> Andrei Cojocaru wrote: > > I am already synchronizing using xntp, that's not the problem. The problem is by some weird way the clock got out of sync by about 1hr during daylight switch on one of the computers I run, and I need a reliable way to get passage of time (I don't need date/time, just the passage of it) for different internal operations in the program. > > Looking for another clock already living there somewhere in the same > PC hardware isn't going to fix it. > > You need to disable CMOS daylight savings time swithing in the BIOS, > so that it doesn't jump the reported clock value on you. > > -- Terry > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
