hardware clock time differs from system time after setting
I'm setting the hardware clock on RHEL 5.1 system using /sbin/hwclock --systohc. After setting the clock I issue a date command followed by a /sbin/hwclock --show from within a script to get fast resolution and I see that the hardware clock precedes the system time on average by .5 seconds. Does anyone have any idea why this would happen and how to fix it? I would think the clock should be identical after setting. thanks
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This might have something to do with the hwclock command waiting for a tick and not be a problem at all. To see what I am talking about:
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hwclock --debug --show I am not sure how you are determining it is, on average, 0.5 seconds behind since, TMK, the date command only has a resolution of 1 second. I do note that 0.5 seconds is the average of all possible values from 0 to 1 second. EDIT: And please don't post the same question in more than one place. There is a reason that is against LQ rules ... |
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