From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 8:56:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5800137B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.empirequest.com (www.empirequest.com [216.126.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE8443E6A for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spinlock_lists@empirequest.com) Received: (qmail 33024 invoked by uid 89); 18 Jul 2002 15:56:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO twothousand) (spinlock?lists@empirequest.com@192.168.0.2) by www.empirequest.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2002 15:56:06 -0000 Message-ID: <001301c22e73$a07c90b0$0200a8c0@twothousand> From: "Andrei Cojocaru" To: "Terry Lambert" Cc: "Darren Pilgrim" , "Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group" , References: <200207171943.g6HJhf4o051526@cwsys.cwsent.com> <004801c22dce$859bfa60$0300a8c0@fivehundred> <3D35D2D0.F480C81D@pantherdragon.org> <005f01c22dd1$7be7d180$0300a8c0@fivehundred> <3D366BD1.D3B14CBC@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:56:06 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does FreeBSD do that or do I have to look for an option in the BIOS? ---- Andrei Cojocaru spinlock_lists@empirequest.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" To: "Andrei Cojocaru" Cc: "Darren Pilgrim" ; "Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group" ; Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:18 AM Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles > Andrei Cojocaru wrote: > > I am already synchronizing using xntp, that's not the problem. The problem is by some weird way the clock got out of sync by about 1hr during daylight switch on one of the computers I run, and I need a reliable way to get passage of time (I don't need date/time, just the passage of it) for different internal operations in the program. > > Looking for another clock already living there somewhere in the same > PC hardware isn't going to fix it. > > You need to disable CMOS daylight savings time swithing in the BIOS, > so that it doesn't jump the reported clock value on you. > > -- Terry > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message