Seting the hardware clock

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Tue Jul 15 05:32:27 PDT 2003


stan <stanb at 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 out of date for ntpd to bring it into synch, then I can update the kernels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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