[ntp:questions] Re: "ntpd" and hwclock

David Woolley david at djwhome.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 29 22:28:05 UTC 2005


In article <db8e0$433b0f10$3ec37582$17819 at news.chello.nl>,
M.C. van den Bovenkamp <marco at linuxgoeroe.dhs.org> wrote:

> Yes. As long as it is synchronized, it will update the hardware clock 
> every 11 minutes. Just a 'single shot' ntpd -g -q is *not* enough for 

ntpd does not update the CMOS clock.  The linux kernel updates it
after anything declares the time to be synchronised, using the adjtimex
system call.  You can do that with the ntptime utility without ever
running ntpd.

> X-Accept-Language: Dutch, nl, nl-BE, en, en-US, en-GB

nl should be after nl-BE, etc.




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