[plug] Very odd date/time problem

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, quoth chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au:

> [root at FWM01 root]# date ; date -u; hwclock
> Thu Mar 18 15:32:05 WST 2004
> Thu Mar 18 07:32:05 UTC 2004
> Thu 18 Mar 2004 03:23:49 PM WST  -0.016948 seconds
> [root at FWM01 root]#
[...]
> "hwclock --systohc" only about a month ago. Surely it has not drifted that
> much? The box has been up for more than 97 days.

9 minutes of clock drift over a month isn't that unusual.
PCs generally have cheapo hardware clocks.

 - Matt