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Date:      Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:57:20 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Updating and displaying CMOS clock
Message-ID:  <20140707045720.GA63735@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvggA%2B4%2Bk=M-nmGZtKxsDTQNf3QFM4r9ZB05F4VAMgS7KQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20140706153206.GA46262@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53B9BC4B.4030609@gooch.io> <20140707021022.GB58025@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <53BA0493.1030205@gooch.io> <20140707034300.GA60208@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <CA%2Bg%2BBvggA%2B4%2Bk=M-nmGZtKxsDTQNf3QFM4r9ZB05F4VAMgS7KQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Olivier Nicole wrote:
> 
> >> The drift on clocks integrated into computers these days is pretty
> >> terrible AFAIK, which is why NTP is so widespread.
> > If the hardware clock is updated maybe daily, I don't expect any
> > significant drift.
> 
> If all you need is a daily update, why not a cron to restart ntp once
> a day? 

Because no matter how often you restart ntp, it does not update the
CMOS (hardware) clock.

My question was about updating the CMOS clock.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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