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From: Shantanu Mahajan <shantanoo+fbsd@ieee.org>
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+++ Jonathan Chen [freebsd] [25-04-03 09:44 +1200]:
| On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:56:35AM +0530, Shantanu Mahajan wrote:
| > 	Hi!
| > 	I am useing 5.0R.
| > 
| > 	> date;sleep 1;date
| > 	Fri Apr 25 01:53:44 IST 2003
| > 	Fri Apr 25 01:53:46 IST 2003
| > 	>
| > 
| > 	I am not able to figure out the problem. any
| > 	comments?
| 
| What's the problem? Along the system-load, context switching,
| process-startup, you're bound to get slippage.
| -- 
| Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                   Computers are like air conditioners.
|                               They stop working when you open Windows.
| 
| ------------------------------
	I tried this in single user mode (shutdown now) and
	still having the same problem.

	Also when I tried to use ntpdate, I was not able to
	update the time.

	Regards,
	Shantanu

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