[wplug] Clock running very slow

[Procario, Michael]

I read man hwclock and it said that the hardware clock keeps time while the
system is off. The system keeps time while it is on. It even said that the
hardware clock is less accurate than the system and you can use the system
time to adjust the hardware clock. That seems to be the opposite of my
problem, since I have been running this box for 24/7 for two weeks now.  

BTW the way my estimate was off on how slow it was running. I reset the
clock at 8:00 PM last night. I had a cron job set up to run fetchmail at
4:00 AM. It actually ran at 8:12 AM, four hours lost in a 12 hour span. 

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Smith [mailto:rick at rbsmith.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:45 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Clock running very slow
> 
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> man hwclock
> and look for the section about 'adjust'.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:19:33PM -0400, Mike Procario wrote:
> > 
> > I just converted an old K6-300 machine to linux (RH 7.3).  
> The clock 
> > seems to be running very slow.  It looks like it is losing about 5 
> > minutes an hour.  That kind of reducing the usefulness as a 
> server for 
> > my family network.  I am guessing that this is more likely 
> a hardware 
> > problem than a linux problem, but I bet lots of people on 
> the list are 
> > running very old boxes.  Any ideas of what to look at to fix the 
> > clock.
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