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01-31-2003, 06:03 PM	#1
rockdw Member Registered: Nov 2002 Location: Chicago, IL Distribution: Rasbian, Debian, Gentoo, RHEL Posts: 65 Rep:	Dell Laptop time drift I have a Dell C610 Laptop running RedHat 8.0 and I am noticing that the time drifts a lot on the system. It is losing 20-30 minutes in an 8 hour period. Does anyone know what might be happening here? I am trying to use ntp, but I don't seem to be getting regular updates. It looks like it only gets a time sync once when the service starts, but does nothing with it after that.

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