On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:36:43PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > Lars Nooden <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I've got a small system running 5.2-stable and the clock seems off. NTP > > > is making entries like this on startup: > > > > > > Jan 31 10:15:31 net5501 ntpd[20060]: adjusting local clock by 93.846882s > > > > > > I've looked around in the mail archives for various mailing lists and > > > have > > > the impression that a proper shutdown (using shutdown) will sync the > > > hardware clock. > > > > The shutdown(8) command doesn't directly sync the RTC; boot(9) does. > > You need to perform an actual halt or reboot for this to happen. > > > > -- > > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > > And remember ntpd takes it's time to adjust the clock. > > Set the clock once by hand or use rdate once if you are impatient. > > -Otto Thanks. It looks like my drift was due to not using halt / shutdown.
I have now switched to using ntpd -s, since the box gets turned on almost every day. But because my ISP can take 3 to 5 minutes to cough up a DHCP address, ntpd was getting started way before the public NTP servers were available. I've moved ntpd startup to /etc/rc.local after a check for connectivity. Regards, /Lars
