[wplug] Clock running very slow

[Bob Schmertz]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Procario, Michael wrote:

>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. 

Four hours?  That just happens to be our current offset from GMT.  Are 
you positive you didn't make a mistake regarding that?  Make sure you 
are using the same measurement before and after (e.g., type 'date' at 
8:00 P.M., then do it again as the same user in the same environment at 
8 A.M.

>
>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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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz