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Re: ntp and updating the bios clock by the kernel every 11 minutes.



On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:

> I have never heard of a kernel voluntarily updating the hardware clock,
> or anyything at a weird 11 minute interval. I do however set on some
> wild-clocked old mobos  a cron job to write the HWclock once an hour or
> once a day. however if you have NTP synched and a drift file updated by
> xntpd, then you don't even need to do that.

Likewise. Never heard of kernel writing to the BIOS clock. I am also
running a cron job daily to write the date/time into the BIOS clock.

--Ariel
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