On Tuesday 11 December 2007 02:32, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-12-10 at 21:22 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > If you are curious, what I'm doing is compare the CMOS clock with the > system clock, to prove it doesn't stray: > > > set `/sbin/hwclock --show` > HWC=$4
Two things: 1) Field four of the output from hwclock is the year. 2) The last field of the output is the current discrepancy between the hardware clock and the system clock. Isn't that what you're trying to learn? > ... > > Or maybe there is something to get the absolute value. One my 10.0 system: % while true; do hwclock; sleep 10; done Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:14 AM PST -0.877900 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:25 AM PST -0.988284 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:36 AM PST -0.983046 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:47 AM PST -0.989136 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:58 AM PST -0.988547 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:09 AM PST -0.987777 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:20 AM PST -0.989716 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:31 AM PST -0.980444 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:42 AM PST -0.933735 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:53 AM PST -0.982149 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:27:04 AM PST -0.994643 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:27:15 AM PST -0.978735 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:27:26 AM PST -0.940854 seconds ^C On my 10.3 system: % while true; do hwclock; sleep 10; done Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:16 AM PST -0.000481 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:26 AM PST -0.000754 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:36 AM PST -0.000752 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:46 AM PST -0.000759 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:25:56 AM PST -0.000756 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:06 AM PST -0.000758 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:16 AM PST -0.000755 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:26 AM PST -0.000761 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:36 AM PST -0.000766 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:46 AM PST -0.000758 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:26:56 AM PST -0.000758 seconds Tue 11 Dec 2007 10:27:06 AM PST -0.000760 seconds ^C They're running on completely different hardware, but both use NTP. > ... > > > Both have good man pages. > > And "info" pages. Gack! > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
