[mdlug] Clocks

[Aaron Kulkis]

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.
> 

You need the Network Time Protocol package.

Add the following lines to /etc/ntp.conf:

# Random pool servers, see http://www.pool.ntp.org/ for more information
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org

then start NTP with:
# /etc/init.d/ntp start