keeping time

[NoOp]

On 03/19/2007 04:48 PM, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 18:07 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> I have an Ubuntu 6.10 system running 24/7 which gains more
>> than two hours every week.
>> 
>> For the purposes of this discussion, assume that the system
>> has *no* external inputs -- only me at the console -- no
>> network connection of any kind.
>> 
>> What can I set_up / tweak so that the time being kept by
>> the system is more accurate ?
> 
> NTP is the software you want. You can run it to sync daily or hourly
> from a script in /etc/cron.hourly or /etc/cron.daily.
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntp
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntp-simple
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntpdate
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/net/ntp-server
> 
> mike
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,  mikus
>> 
>> 
> 

Ummm... NTP is Network Time Protocol. The OP stated that he has *no*
network connections.

Mikus: are you showing the same 2 hour gain in your bios settings? Could
be a HW clock issue, or perhaps a bug; check:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=clock