system clock is too slow
John Thompson
JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Wed Jul 28 19:41:25 UTC 2004
Gang Qin wrote:
> My FC2's system clock is very slow, every hour it loses more than 30 min
> when the system is running, is there a way to find out the reason and
> correct it?
How old is the battery? You can use ntp to keep the clock syncronized
with a time server on the internet but if the battery is going, ntp is
only a band-aid. If you have a dead battery and power down
(intentionally or otherwise) you may have an unbootable system when you
try to power up again.
--
-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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