Or use ntp! BillK
On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 04:47, Sevatio wrote: > Jose, > > I rebooted my GA-7ZX-1 to Windoze98 and have had it there for more than a > day. The time remained accurate to the second. As far as I know, Windoze98 > uses only the hardware clock for its timekeeping. > > OTOH, LM8.0 & LM8.1 uses a combination of the PC's hardware clock & its > system clock. The system clock's time can drift away from the hardware > clock's time by over an hour per day. The problem is further exacerbated > when the shutdown process instructs the hardware clock to set its time to the > screwed-up systemclock. > > Normally "adjtimex" can be used to adjust the drift rate of the system clock, > LM8.0 & LM8.1's drift rate fluctuates wildly rendering adjtimex useless. > > Since Wind98 and LM7.2 (pre 2.4 era) did not have this problem, I must say > that this timer issue is not OS independent and is related to LM8.0 & LM8.1 > and perhaps any distro out there that uses the 2.4 kernel. > > I hope that they resolve this sometime in the near future. In the meantime, > I'll abstain from purchasing suspect hardware. > > > Sevatio > > > > On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:25am, you wrote: > > The timer issue is OS independent, and is not related to Linux. > > > > 7.2 did not have the routines which attempted to fix the problem AFAIK, > > whereas 8.x does. > > > > -JMS > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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