Any Idea to solve this? ============================= []'s Marcelo Simon Linux user # 298484 - Machine # 183686 ============================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred A. Miller" To: "Marcelo Simon" Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Software Clock problem (SMP Kernel Dual Xeon Processor)

Marcelo Simon wrote:

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Hi All,

I have Linux SuSE 8.1 with kernel version 2.4.19-64GB-SMP installed in an Acer computer (Dual Xeon processors). When I execute a date command, the time is wrong. But when I execute the hwclock command, the time is right. After sincronizing them both (date 02171130; hwclock --systohc), I noticed, after some time, that the date command was showing again the wrong time. It seems that this clock is running twice as fast as the real time, given by the hwclock command.

And now? Is this a software (timezone, localtime), SMP kernel or a hardware problem?

Hardware....flacky clock. Acer and Dell BOTH are known for this.

Fred

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