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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news1.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!not-for-mail From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Time goes too fast. How do I slow it down ? Date: 1 Sep 1995 17:29:31 -0400 Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Fairfax VA USA Lines: 18 Sender: kyle@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <427tvr$p1j@wendy-fate.uu.net> References: <422rnv$5on@dei.calldei.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wendy-fate.uu.net David A. Lee <dave@dei.calldei.com> wrote: > My system clock seems to be speeding ahead by about 5 minutes > a day. Is due to my hardware clock haveing problems or is > this a software problem? Probably hardware. I have two PCs. One keeps time like a wuality wristwatch. The other drifts horribly, twenty or thirty every few days, forward and backward. If you have an IP connection, get the NTP software and run ntpdate every hour, or whenever you bring up your link. If your clock drifts a constant amount per day you should be able write a short program that uses adjtime to slow the clock down. Run it regularly and the clock with keep better time. ntpdate is the best solution, though. It even keeps the PC with the bad clock within a second of the stratum 2 server of my ISP.