[wplug] Losing Time!

[Henry Umansky]

If you notice that the system clock is not accurate losing a number of 
minutes each day, or not incrementing the time when the system is turned 
off, then the problem might be the RTC(Real Time Clock) battery. The power 
consumption by the CMOS RAM and the RTC is so low that usually it plays no 
role in the lifetime of the batteries or accumulators. Instead, the life 
expectancy is determined by the self-discharge time of the accumulator or 
battery, and is about 3 years (or 10 years for lithium batteries). Also, 
the quality of components these days is rather questionable sometimes.

--On Monday, November 11, 2002 7:10 PM -0500 Zach Paine <zman at wplug.org> 
wrote:r

> My box seems to be losing time.  I'll leave for school around 7:30 in the
> morning, and the clock will be fine, but when I get home around 5, the
> clock  will say ~4.  I have ntpd running, so what could be causing this
> problem?
>
> 	-Zach
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Systems/Programmer III
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