[1562] in RedHat Linux List
Re: setting system time from cmos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prasanth Kumar)
Tue Oct 29 00:48:20 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 21:38:48 -0800
From: kumar1@home.com (Prasanth Kumar)
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Daniel M. Drucker wrote:
>
> 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?
I know there is a program around which will synchronize your clock
to the u.s naval clock or something similar over the internet. Have it
executed once every day when you are logged onto the internet.
Prasanth Kumar
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