I was actually watching this with a kin eye, since I've the same problem;
I am curious to know what the fix was. Could you explain how you fixed
your drift? I mean, what did you exactly have to do?
Thanks
Robert
> Thanks all,
> It was the /etc/adjtime as Tim Hockin had stated, that seems to have fixed the
> problem.
>
> > > Maybe I was not clear in my first email or maybe I am confused. The only time
> > > the clock gets skewed is when I reboot or shutdown and then have to restart.
> >
> > if you have a file /etc/adjtime, you may have a drift value that is based
> > on erroneous data. If there is a file /etc/adjtime, delete it. Set the
> > time (clock -w), delete it again, set the time again. This will establish
> > a drift of almost nothing. Now reboot. On reboot most systems that use
> > hwclock do --adjust - which looks at your drift value. From here out it
> > should work.
> >
> > Of course, you may just have a bad clock, but I ran into this just
> > recently.
>
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