odd problem, system clock stops while power-down
Ian Smith
smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Tue Oct 28 06:22:24 PDT 2008
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:58 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <geseeker at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every
> > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use the
> > CMOS clock?
>
> An idea would to use NTP to get the exact time from your
> local atomic time dealer at system startup. :-)
>
> See ntpd and ntpdate for further information.
Definitely the best advice. However it doesn't explain why his system
apparently fails to retrieve the current date & time from CMOS on boot.
Mine always have, though CMOS clocks rarely keep good time, so using NTP
after network connection after boot I see initial corrections of several
seconds usually .. still it's better than having all your log timestamps
screwed after reboot until NTP does its thing.
Richard: are you running UTC or local time in CMOS? If the latter, does
the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock exist?
cheers, Ian
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