Re: ntp and updating the bios clock by the kernel every 11 minutes.

2000-01-30 Thread Ira Abramov
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: As far as I know new kernels does not write the correct time to the bios clock every 11 min even if the system has a good time reference (ntp or such). This is contrary to what older kernels used to do. I have never heard of a kernel voluntarily

Re: ntp and updating the bios clock by the kernel every 11 minutes.

2000-01-30 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote: I have never heard of a kernel voluntarily updating the hardware clock, or anyything at a weird 11 minute interval. I do however set on some wild-clocked old mobos a cron job to write the HWclock once an hour or once a day. however if you have NTP

Re: ntp and updating the bios clock by the kernel every 11 minutes.

2000-01-30 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: As far as I know new kernels does not write the correct time to the bios clock every 11 min even if the system has a good time reference (ntp or such). This is contrary to what older kernels used to do. I have never heard of a kernel

ntp and updating the bios clock by the kernel every 11 minutes.

2000-01-29 Thread Shaul Karl
As far as I know new kernels does not write the correct time to the bios clock every 11 min even if the system has a good time reference (ntp or such). This is contrary to what older kernels used to do. Can someone give a good reference to prove whether I am right or wrong? I tried the kernel