Package: util-linux Version: 2.12r-19 Severity: normal Due to some clock trouble I intended to investigate I looked through the man page for hwclock. There I find: Automatic Hardware Clock Synchronization By the Kernel
To see if it is on or off, use the command adjtimex --print and
look at the value of "status". If the "64" bit of this number
(expressed in binary) equal to 0, 11 minute mode is on.
Otherwise, it is off.
So I installed adjtimex and ran "adjtimex --print". Since the output
was not clear to me, I looked at the man page for adjtimex, there I
see:
-p, --print
the kernel. For Linux 1.0 and 1.2 kernels, the value is
as follows:
0 clock is synchronized (so the kernel should
periodically set the CMOS clock to match the
system clock)
Whereas for 2.0 kernels, 0 is not defined. Since Debian does not ship
1.0/1.2 kernels for a long time, the man page for hwclock looks clearly
outdated to me.
If you start working on it, it would be nice if you could specify how
to *enable* the 11 minute mode again (but I can report this in a
separate wishlist bug).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2-grsec-cz01
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Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurs 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libslang 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 universally unique id library
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii tzdata 2007b-1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
util-linux recommends no packages.
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