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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:37:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com, mexas@bris.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ntp frequent time resets - battery dead?
Message-ID:  <201403040937.s249bV9V042311@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20140304171522.2934a2b8@X220.alogt.com>

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>From erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com Tue Mar  4 09:29:39 2014
>
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:07:25 -0800 (PST)
>Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> 
>> I see in /var/log/messages:
>> 
>> Mar  4 00:16:40 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.291030 s
>> Mar  4 00:38:02 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.344745 s
>> Mar  4 00:57:37 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.338739 s
>> Mar  4 01:19:45 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.355020 s
>> Mar  4 01:41:34 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.365177 s
>> Mar  4 01:58:41 mech-anton240 ntpd[764]: time reset +0.306982 s
>> 
>> and so on.
>> 
>> The correction seems large to me.
>> Does this indicate that the battery is dead?
>
>do you reboot between? If not, it is not the battery but the quartz
>used by the clock.

no, no reboots at all.

Please elaborate. I don't really understand you.

>> 
>> This is on a Sun Blade 1500 silver desktop,
>> about 10 years old.
>
>This also can happen on new hardware. But it would be real rare. Did
>you check for dirt in the PCB?

will do

Anton



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