I had a similar problem with the system clock and I used
chronyd to fix it.
http://chrony.sunsite.dk/faq.php#question_2.1
It also supposed to slew the clock to the right setting instead
of just changing it.
Regards,
tzahi.
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> To: Danny Lieberman
> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef; Tzafrir Cohen; Linux-Israel list
> Subject: Re: system clock loops
>
>
> On Monday 21 February 2005 15:51, Danny Lieberman wrote:
> > It sounds to me like a case of a very sick realtime clock -
> maybe the
> > motherboard is sensitive to voltage fluctuations - i think
> the clock
> > might be a vco
>
> The RTC has nothing to do with kernel time after boot. It is
> only used to initialize the kernel internal clock which is
> updated by the PIC interrupts (And there isn't an
> "Uninterrupt" which can swing the "jiffies" counter backwards :-)
>
> > Are you using ntpd? If not - I would try running ntpd and
> see if the
> > problem goes away
>
> ntpd won't sync a clock when the offset is large. However,
> doing a one time ntpdate(8) may give us more information.
>
> Regretfully, it does look like a severe kernel/glibc bug.
>
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