From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 7 15:16:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3FFB42B for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22c.google.com (mail-wg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B7322037 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id k14so4472978wgh.15 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WGzoFN7I1fgvyGZGLzMa5AlD11kgzQuH/tJTUOmLCRA=; b=fRinj94ZzqQtgmUChTUjkZu+V1VZ994Z+RbgbV2m5LDvpI21nY5hPJT8nRIdBx9DNn QHtW729MrKt6J8qhW9yxDYypd3RHaKp8x5zG9lSiwYL09GqTEEStkxuKt1Fs3/PNwYR4 V/KL6F1tOWrb8JeaQhrOOHXNSWbESP9wUsWFGkDs6B51f4XBETgtrghIT4kCzMFUTbr4 Mb8Nkw8O5y0og2p4IZJSWYAAjihD39mCr3jf469jIFwBsPDnZTHiQG/uu1l1hdhYYbZ7 MeZdf1WpXM50K+qRfFJ64jZz/imS+YRAztEOUciNw4iQyzBQFzM3DoPZ5dDCUUXO6Lfw da+A== X-Received: by 10.180.36.18 with SMTP id m18mr1668694wij.74.1404746169156; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (4e5670bd.skybroadband.com. [78.86.112.189]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i4sm116161404wib.21.2014.07.07.08.16.08 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:16:03 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating and displaying CMOS clock Message-ID: <20140707161603.41f75457@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20140707141842.GA77559@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20140706153206.GA46262@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20140707130816.32fd9af2@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140707141842.GA77559@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:16:12 -0000 On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:18:42 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > RW wrote: > > > > > And no, contrary to popular belief, the correction of the CMOS > > > clock does not happen automatically in FreeBSD even if ntpd is > > > running. > > > > Are you sure about that? > > I am pretty sure about 8.4-RELEASE. > > > That used to be the case, but I thought it was > > fixed in 10-CURRENT. > > I really know nothing about CURRENT, maybe you are right and it was > fixed there. It was four year ago, so I guess that was 9-CURRENT, but it was definitely MFC'ed into 8-Stable before 8.4. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=207360 > > I haven't set my hardware clock manually in more than a year, and > > it's out by less than a second. > > My experience is different. In another post you wrote: > I don't run ntpd on that box, just ntpdate hourly. So how do you know what happens when ntpd is running?