Date: 15 Jul 2003 08:32:23 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: stan <stanb@panix.com> Subject: Re: Seting the hardware clock Message-ID: <44oezw6kdk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030714231604.GA27924@teddy.fas.com> References: <20030714231604.GA27924@teddy.fas.com>
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stan <stanb@panix.com> writes: > ;m struggling with getting the hardware clock (BIOS clock) equal to the > kernels time. > > On my Linux boxes a utility called hwclock is run on the way down to > synchronize the 2. > > The problem I'm running into is that if the time on the system gets to far > out of date for ntpd to bring it into synch, then I can update the kernels > clock with ntpdate. But when I reboot the old incorrect time comes back. > > I ran into this during some software testing, that required setting the > clock pretty far off of real time, and it was a PIA to get the machine back > to the correct time. > > How _should_ this be handled? Most people run ntpdate before starting ntpd. The rc.conf enable flags for the two programs support this.
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