Hardware clock is not SYNC'ed with kernel clock by ntpdate?
Won De Erick
won.derick at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 12 06:37:17 PST 2009
--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Guy Dawson <guy at crossflight.co.uk> wrote:
> Does the hardware clock show the correct UTC time?
>
> Your time zone appears to be PHT but the harware clock
> should be keeping UTC time.
This is what I only saw in the BIOS config:
System Time 07:43:50
System Date Thu 02/12/2009
No setting for time zone.
>
> Guy
>
> Won De Erick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've done the following procedure to verify the
> unstable date/time being recorded in the hardware clock.
> >
> > I'm using IBM x343 with FreeBSD 6.2:
> >
> > 1. Rebooted the box. Entered a wrong date/time as:
> > Date: December 1, 2008
> > Time: 12:00:00
> >
> > 2. When the box was UP'ed, displayed the date (the
> box is sync'ed with an NTP server during start-up).
> > #date
> > Thu Feb 12 15:37:57 PHT 2009
> >
> > It seems correct.
> >
> > 3. Change with a wrong date/time again, then
> displayed. # date 0812301200
> > Tue Dec 30 12:00:00 PHT 2008
> > # date
> > Tue Dec 30 12:00:14 PHT 2008
> >
> > It seems correct.
> >
> > 4. Synchronized the date/time with an NTP Server.
> Then, displayed the date.
> > # ntpdate ph.pool.ntp.org
> > 12 Feb 15:40:59 ntpdate[3094]: step time server
> 202.92.128.201 offset 3814728.167216 sec
> > # date
> > Thu Feb 12 15:41:33 PHT 2009
> >
> > It seems correct.
> >
> > 5. Rebooted the box, then verified the system
> date/time at the BIOS config. System Time 07:43:50
> > System Date Thu 02/12/2009
> >
> > Wrong TIME? I think the hardware clock was not
> properly SYNCed with the kernel clock. I've verified
> this with other box, and same thing happened.
> >
> > Is there any issues on using date and ntpdate?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Won
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> -- Guy
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