[PLUG] Fwd: Weird system time issue

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ken Nowack wrote:

[snip]
> I replaced the CMOS battery already. Sitting at a
> console the hwclock seems to gain about 2.5 minutes an
> hour. So maybe the new battery is a bit zealous.
>
> I don't seem to be loosing other settings. Any in
> particular you're asking about?
>
> Another thing I noticed is that when I start gdm, the
> system clock immediately looses about 2.5 hours and
> seems to run slower and slower from there. So it seems
> that there must be an x component to blame here as
> part of the problem somewhere.
[snip]

You might also look at /etc/adjtime and the adjtimex command, a while back
I had some weird problems with clock drift and found that something had
messed up the kernel clock settings.

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