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Abhay Kedia wrote: |
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> On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote: |
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> > the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the |
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> > adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full |
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> > hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one). |
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> That was it!!! That was the file causing all the pain. I moved it |
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> away and now there are no problems. Any ideas why it was doing |
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> it. |
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A possibility is that you've set the hwclock twice, first with a |
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wrong time, then say ten minutes later you realize your watch is |
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five minutes fast, and you set the clock again, with the correct |
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time. Now the adjust feature thinks your CMOS clock is ticking |
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away ten minutes in just five minutes, and every time you boot your |
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computer it will adjust the CMOS clock for this drift and then read |
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it to set the system time. |
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This drift correction feature is useful, but one should be aware of |
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it when setting the hardware clock manually: remove the /etc/adjtime |
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file after 'hwclock --set' has been used with a wrong time. |
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> The file is obviously there for some reason |
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See man hwclock, the section on "The Adjust Function". |
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Benno |
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