Internal clock running too fast

[Vanush Paturyan (Misha)]

Hi all,

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Alessandro FAGLIA wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> From: "Robert Ham" <robert_ham at bristol-city.gov.uk>
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re:Internal clock running too fast
> Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 11:19:36 GMT+0200 (ora legale Europa occidentale)
>
> My question was addressed to an hardware problem. I know about ntpd (all 
> my debian servers have ntp-simple), but in the last I bought I tried 
> first with ntpdate and found this problem. Probably the motherboard is 
> not Swiss-made... ;-)

AFAIK, it's not a hardware problem. Linux kernel runs it's own clock
and doesn't use hardware clock for time keeping (only between
reboots). ntpdate compares that internal clock with the time provided
by server. use hwclock --show to check what exactly your hardware
closk is showing (I'm sure you will notice differense between hardware
clock and system (i.e. kernel) clock. 

Misha.



> Just wondering why this problem and if it'll bring me others in the 
> future...
> 
> Regards.
> Alessandro
> 
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