<Thanks for all the replies so far>
How much time have you been losing?I miscalculated how time I had lost yesterday when I
posted initially. Right now it is off by 28 hours. this took about
a week+ to accumulate.
This box has only one pentium processor so I have a feeling that the
Also, is your computer a SMP one (multi-processor)? SMP is known to
drift in a dramatic way if CONFIG_RTC is not set. If you are using a
stock kernel, it should be fine.
battery has gone south on the motherboard. I will however
follow your advice and implement the following
In either case, you should consider running (in order of importance):- 'rdate' to a nearby, on time server (in a crontab);
- 'ntpdate';
- 'xntp'.
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Thanks again,
All the best,
Mary.
