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setting system time from cmos

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel M. Drucker)
Mon Oct 28 23:05:02 1996

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:00:23 -0500
From: "Daniel M. Drucker" <dmd@3e.org>
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My CMOS clock only loses/gains about a second every month or two.
Linux's clock, on the other hand, seems to lose about 10 seconds
a day. Is there anything bad about putting a 'clock -us' in crontab
to run every few hours?

 Daniel Drucker
 dmd@3e.org


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