[ltp] clock drift

[George Staikos]

On Thu, 04 May 2000, ye wei wrote:
> George Staikos wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone noticed problems with clock drift?  In particular I'm using a
> > Thinkpad i1460 and Redhat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.13.  I can't for the life of me
> > keep my clock set to the proper time or date.  I think it loses time worst
> > when the machine goes to sleep or gets powered off (perhaps also when it
> > switches to battery).
> 
> I don't think it's related to laptop, even desktop linux has that problem.
> You need find a standard time server, then put 'rdate $server'  in cron and keep
> the time of your local box.

  This is not the case.  I have a rediculous number of linux boxes and they
all manage to keep the time (from 486 up to dual PII).  Only my Thinkpad has
problems.  I'm going to try the GMT idea and see what that does.

-- 

George Staikos

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