Updating and displaying CMOS clock

[Victor Sudakov]

Olivier Nicole wrote:
> 
> >> The drift on clocks integrated into computers these days is pretty
> >> terrible AFAIK, which is why NTP is so widespread.
> > If the hardware clock is updated maybe daily, I don't expect any
> > significant drift.
> 
> If all you need is a daily update, why not a cron to restart ntp once
> a day? 

Because no matter how often you restart ntp, it does not update the
CMOS (hardware) clock.

My question was about updating the CMOS clock.


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