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Re: ntp and updating the bios clock by the kernel every 11 minutes.
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> As far as I know new kernels does not write the correct time to the bios clock
> every 11 min even if the system has a good time reference (ntp or such). This
> is contrary to what older kernels used to do.
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.
--
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"If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an
abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently."
-- Linus Torvalds on Microkernels (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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