[wplug] Clock running very slow

[TC Linux]

I had an old Compaq 166MHz beast that did that near the end of its life.  I
replaced the CMOS battery and it improved, but never really kept accurate
time after that.  The worst it got before the battery replacement was two to
three hours difference over two days.  After the battery replacement, it
dropped to 10 to 20 minutes difference.  It ran that way for a year before I
retired it and gave it to a not so PC abusive relative.

Try the battery, couldn't hurt, and could probably get it at Radio Shack for
under $20 bucks.

Craig

> 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.


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Craig Lang
linux at twistedcranium.com