The 02.11.13 at 11:03, Antônio L. F. Cruz wrote:
Thank you Carlos.
Welcome :-)
Someone could say where I could head for discussing this issue with kernel experts, please?
Don't look at me :-)
The hardware clock works ok under MS-DOS and NT 4.
I think there is a good discussion of that in the xntp docs, or perhaps in a howto. Windows keeps both clocks continously sinchronized, whereas linux leaves the hardware (cmos) clock alone.
hwclock always shows a compatible time; each CMOS second lasting one wall clock second.
Makes sense, it agrees with what I said above :-)
Couldn't use xntpd because it dies when the clock wents insane; wouldn't use it without a local clock (internal) anyways.
Too bad. I understand the kernel clock can be adjusted to go faster or slower and so be more precise (man adjtimex), and for that the file /etc/adjtime is used. So, if there is something wrong there, deleting it would the trick. If it something else, well... then you need help from somebody that really knows :-) Perhaps, till you find the real solution, you could use a cronjob adjusting the time from cmos to system. Also, do a search of "clock" and "time" in the sdb, there are some articles. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson