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[Alain DIDIERJEAN <alain.didierjean@xxxxxxx>]

Alain DIDIERJEAN a écrit :
> 
> "David A. Riggs" a écrit :
> >
> > >Re: [SLE] System clock too fast
> > > From: Robert Stia <rnr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "David A. Riggs" <driggs4@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >"David A. Riggs" wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Wednesday 10 October 2001 10:04 am, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> > >> > If I remember well, I read something about system clock
> > >> > being too fast on SMP computers.
> > >> > It's happening on my system since I installed kernel 2.4.10
> > >> > SuSE (about 2mn a day). Can it be cured ?, beside loading
> > >> > twice a day from a time server...
> > >>
> 
> --------------<SNIP>--------------------------
> >
> > Sorry, unless your machine is SMP, this is totally unrelated to the problem
> > discussed in this thread. Have you tried replacing your BIOS battery?
> >
> > David A. Riggs
> 
> As mentionned in the original message maybe not clearly
> enough, the machine indeed is SMP : 2xPII 266Mhz
> 
I finally found a working solution by reading hwclock's man
: I added the following script to /etc/cron.daily, named
bbb_local_time :

#!/bin/sh

#
# paranoia settings
#
umask 022

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
export PATH

hwclock --adjust	# correct HW clock
hwclock --hctosys	# set SYS time from HW

This seems to keep the time correct +/-2 seconds during
working time (8-23).
I might add a correction from a time server by midnight
should the drift be more important. Still testing as it has
been operating only three days..

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