[plug] Time speeding up...

[Craig Ringer]

Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> Sunday, 16 October 2005 21:10, Senectus . wrote:
> 
>>For some odd reason the time on my PC is speeding up.. I seem to gain
>>about an hour and a half a day without reboots..
>>Any idea what might cause that?
> 
> A fast clock.

Yep. It could also be power management related. Some laptops will gain 
time if they're booted in 1/2 clock or 2/3 clock mode, then throttled up 
to full speed at runtime. This seems to be much less common in these 
days of ACPI hardware that kind of works, but used to be depressingly 
frequent.

> Install ntp.

Yep, that's what I'd recommend. Using the network time protocol will 
give you much more accurate time than you could ever expect to get from 
your PC clock, fast or otherwise. On most systems it's trivial to set 
up, often as easy as "apt-get install ntp" or "yum install ntp", though 
you might want to edit the NTP server config file to specify a more 
convenient local timeserver.

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Craig Ringer