Hi all. Installed Redhat 8.0 on my machine a few months ago (and still feel like a drunk blind-man operating a space-ship), and have recently begun to notice that the clock is slowly getting out of sync...

The computer is on 24/7. It drops behind about 4 minutes a day. Of course I can adjust the time/date settings in the gnome menu, and even get it to synchronize itself with a time server, but there is no option for it to periodically do this on its own.

Might this not be the symptom of a bigger problem?

Appreciate the help.

It could be that your CMOS battery is starting to go.

You should run ntpd, the ntp daemon, that will keep your clock in sync.

Shouldn't be a bigger problem - can happen with shared IRQ's even if everything else is setup ok.

Thanks for your replies...

The computer is just over 2 years old, so it may be the CMOS battery,

but after doing a bit more research, I was wondering if the /etc/adjtime file might not be the problem.


Here's what mine reads:

-90.135452 1047743477 0.000000
1047743477
LOCAL

Perhaps the -90 is causing the slowdown? Or would this only be a problem if the computer was off ? (it's been on the whole time this has been happening)

Thanks