Updating and displaying CMOS clock

[RW]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:18:42 +0700
Victor Sudakov wrote:

> RW wrote:
> > 
> > > And no, contrary to popular belief, the correction of the CMOS
> > > clock does not happen automatically in FreeBSD even if ntpd is
> > > running.
> > 
> > Are you sure about that? 
> 
> I am pretty sure about 8.4-RELEASE.
> 
> > That used to be the case, but I thought it was
> > fixed in 10-CURRENT.
> 
> I really know nothing about CURRENT, maybe you are right and it was
> fixed there.
 

It was four year ago, so I guess that was 9-CURRENT, but it was
definitely MFC'ed into 8-Stable before 8.4. 

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=207360

> > I haven't set my hardware clock manually in more than a year, and
> > it's out by less than a second.
> 
> My experience is different.

In another post you wrote:

> I don't run ntpd on that box, just ntpdate hourly.

So how do you know what happens when ntpd is running?