[mdlug] Clocks

[Joe Doehler]

My system time keeps losing 3 seconds every minute ever since I 
installed Fedora 10 a couple of weeks ago. My hardware clock works just 
fine. I have been trying to fix this, so far without luck.

- Hardware clock is set to UTC
- /etc/localtime points to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST
- The error continues whether or not ntpd is running. I suspect that the 
drift is too large for ntpd to handle it by itself.
- I deleted /etc/adjtime, adjusted both system time and hardware clock, 
and rebooted immediately. Both clocks were in sync.

> [root at black joe]# cat /etc/adjtime
> 0.000000 1261096847 0.000000
> 1261096847
> UTC
 >
> [root at black joe]# cat /var/lib/ntp/drift
> 0.000

After a few minutes:

> [root at black joe]# hwclock --show ; date
> Thu 17 Dec 2009 08:01:03 PM EST  -0.425194 seconds
> Thu Dec 17 20:00:10 EST 2009

I am running out of places to look. I tried a few other things I found 
after googling, but no luck so far. Any ideas?

Joe.