On 2009-02-27, Unruh <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> writes: > >>On 2009-02-27, Nero Imhard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Silly indeed, but rather Linux-specific. No such kludge in FreeBSD >>> afaik. > >>Why do you consider a periodic update of the RTC to be a kludge? > > Because it does not allow one to determine the frequency offset of > the rtc, info which can be used to improve the starup accuracy of the > system from the rtc.
That's a non-issue for virtually all users. > This is supported by both chrony and by the new (non-utils) hwclock. > The 11 min mode completely destroys that. Then disable the 11 minute mode if your application (i.e. the purpose your computer is used for) requires it. > It would be like instituting a procedure by which ntp polled the > external sources and simply reset the clock each time it found an > offset. You're implying that there is some sort of mechanism to discipline the RTC. As far as I know on a Linux system the RTC is read at start up, periodically updated while the sytem is running and updated during the shut down process. -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
