Re: Computer loosing time

Brian Lunergan wrote:
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Subject: Computer loosing time
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 21:55:16 -0400
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What would cause a computer to loose time while it's on and running?
(approx. 10 minutes lost every 24 hrs) It's easy enough to sync the
clock with NTP, but it makes no sense to me that my pc can't count
seconds properly.

There may be other explanations possible (the ubertechs in the group can get themselves around that) but my speculative thought would be that the battery keeping your CMOS alive (and hence the time/date information) has reached its limits and is beginning to fail.


Which would be first thought if the computer was ever turned off :)...
System time doesn't rely on CMOS clock except to to reand from the clock
on boot.

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