ntpd and cmos clock update

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 8/28/05, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> 
> I think I saw more than once speculations that FreeBSD updates CMOS
> clock when time is set, so CMOS clock value should always be very close
> to internal OS timer. But I always took it with a grain of salt because
> every time I reboot after long uptime period I see messages from ntpd
> about adjusting clock by many seconds and such discrepancy should not
> occur, of course, during couple of minutes that reboot takes.
...

That's why I always thought that ntpd did not work in FreeBSD 5.x!

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