Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > And each of them assumes it's the only one writing to cmos and therefore
> being able to measure its clock drift. Even with a single-boot system I
> didn't get high confidence in the past of this process working realibly.
> Just through adjtime away completely and fetch the time (ntpdate) when
> booting. Run ntp on anything turned on more than a day if you care about
> the time, run ntp *always* on networked computers that may run several
> days at once.

I came to the same conclusion. I'd prefer to disable that
/etc/adjtime magic by default. It just leads to unexplainable clock
changes for those who don't know about the mechanism.

cu
Ludwig

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