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hwclock or adjtimex?
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| W. Wat son 2005-01-22, 5:45 pm |
| I'd like to get the clock on my linux system more accurate. It looks like
hwclock will do this. However, there's this other command, adjtimex, that
seems to do something similar. 1. Does it pre-date the existence of
hwclock? 2. Is it in some way better than hwclock? 3. It looks to me to
protect the accuracy of the clock from a crash that it is necessary to run
a cron job every so often, 1 hour, say, to write the sw clock to the hw
clock, right?
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| Sverre Larsson 2005-01-28, 2:45 am |
| W. Wat son wrote:
> I'd like to get the clock on my linux system more accurate. It looks
> like hwclock will do this. However, there's this other command,
> adjtimex, that seems to do something similar. 1. Does it pre-date the
> existence of hwclock? 2. Is it in some way better than hwclock? 3. It
> looks to me to protect the accuracy of the clock from a crash that it is
> necessary to run a cron job every so often, 1 hour, say, to write the sw
> clock to the hw clock, right?
>
I run this every 3 hour, and the server itself is updated by running ntpd.
#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /sbin/hwclock ]
then
/sbin/hwclock --adjust
/sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc
fi
exit 0
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| On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:40:29 +0100, Sverre Larsson thoughtfully wrote:
> W. Wat son wrote:
> I run this every 3 hour, and the server itself is updated by running ntpd.
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> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -x /sbin/hwclock ]
> then
> /sbin/hwclock --adjust
> /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc
> fi
> exit 0
To the root crontab I added:
00 5 1-31/2 * * /sbin/rdate -s time.nist.gov
to set the system clock every other day
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