On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:41PM -0400, Peter wrote: > The degree of drift is unusual... one might suspect hardware (warning h/w > clueless... could the crystal wear out?) weird, but it should be noted that > PC clocks are often terrible, I had one that would absolutely lose 20 > minutes a day, and it was fine with NTP, because ntp does not sync. it > adjusts the rate of clock ticking. so just running ntp for long enough will > calibrate your clock (not sure if it will correct it at bios level, but at > least while running will not drift so badly.)
There's also chrony, which also adjusts clock speed. It also uses the network time protocol to determine the correct time, but may have different algorithms for calculating adjustments. It does require the clock to be set close to correct initially. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
