Re: Losing time !

2002-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Mar 17, 2002, Greg Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of In addition to the hwclock adjustments, you may want to replace

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-20 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 06:05, Greg Murphy wrote: > Greetings, > > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in a week, so if

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:05:55PM -0600, Greg Murphy wrote: > Greetings, > > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:17PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > I have no idea about why your computer would be losing time. You could set up > a > Network Time Protocol daemon (for example: nptd) to syncronize your clock > with internet time servers. You probably have to reset your clock firs

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-17 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:05:55PM -0600, Greg Murphy wrote: > Greetings, > > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in

Re: Losing time !

2002-03-17 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 16:05, Greg Murphy wrote: > My computer for some reason seems to be losing time at a rate of about 20 > minutes per 10-15 hours. I was under the impression that linux keeps track of > the time from clock cycles. I have not rebooted my machine in a week, so if > that previ

RE: Losing Time SOLVED

1999-10-14 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Opps, I figured it out. Turns out that I had a lousy /etc/adjtime file. This file is used and set by "hwclock" to track drift (inaccuracy) in the HW clock. Turns out that I must have run "hwclock" twice in quick succession durring a brief peroid of major drift in the clock. "hwclock" assu