[mdlug] Clocks

[Philip Morales]

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Joe Doehler wrote:
> 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.
>
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