[wplug] Clock problems

[Vanco, Donald]

Mike Procario wrote:
> I have written before about clock problems and I just seem to attract
> them. I have an old machine K6 233 MHz which seems to have lost the
> ability the change the day. It has been stuck on July 13 since July
> 13. I have shut it down until I can open it up and change the battery.
> 
> I also have a newer system about a year old. It has kept time find
> since I got it, but now the system clock is losing time. It seems to
> have started acting up sometime after I went to RedHat 9.0.
> 
> The hardware clock looks fine. I just checked it with
> 
> /sbin/hwclock
> 
> It was within a few seconds of my atomic clock synched watch.
> 
> I was under the impression that the system clock got reset a each
> boot to the hwclock time. Today it was about 5 hours behind shortly
> after I booted. I used
> 
> /sbin/hwclock --hctosys
> 
> to reset the time and it did reset it to the correct time. Anybody
> know where in the init scripts the time gets set?

rc.sysinit

Not sure if it's in here explicitly, but worth a look-see:
http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/

Don