27 May
2006
27 May
'06
2:11 p.m.
On 5/27/06, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
I've discovered that the hardware clock on one of my machines is running about 2/3 slow: loses about 20min in each hour. For the time being, I'm writing the system time to it every so often, and the system time is updated hourly by NTP.
I have no cure, except to run ntpd all the time - it will notice your clock drifting and correct it.
But the principal irritation of it is that the system clock is set from the HW clock on bootup, so I have to make provision to over-ride that.
Don't turn the computer off?
Does anyone have any suggestions for why this might be happening, and/or for what to so about it?
Probably worth checking the bios battery.
Tim.