[plug] Very odd date/time problem

[Ben Jensz]

It could be entirely possible to get that much drift.

I've got a machine at work that has been up 36 days and there is a difference 
of just over 12 minutes between the system time and hwclock over that time.

But, both the hwclock and system time have drifted, because the hwclock is now 
10 minutes fast (it was correct before), so that makes the system time 22 
minutes faster than it was.


/ Ben


On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:01 pm, chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au wrote:
> Greetings fellow PLUGgers,
>
> I have a box running RedHat 9.0 that seems to be giving me three different
> times, eg.
>
> [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]#
>
> I can understand the first two (system time and UTC offset or vise versa),
> but , I set the hardware clock to the system time with the command
> "hwclock --systohc" only about a month ago. Surely it has not drifted that
> much? The box has been up for more than 97 days.
>
> Any hints?
> Regards,
> Chris
>
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