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

M.C. van den Bovenkamp marco at linuxgoeroe.dhs.org
Wed Sep 28 21:45:52 UTC 2005


Jarrar Jaffari wrote:

> My question does ntpd at any point changes the hardware clock 

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 
that to happen, you bust be running the ntpd daemon full time.

		Regards,

			Marco.





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