hardware clock problems?

From: Eric (ericteuber_at_web.de)
Date: 10/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:08:55 +0200

Hi all,

my system comes up at boot with the time (and date) it has been shutdown
before. As soon xntp gets the right time from public timeservers,
everything is ok.

I assume the hardware clock of my system isn't working anymore (it did
in the past, for sure). Is it the board battery?

Could it be another problem, such as hardware clock isn't synchronized
anymore at shutdown?
If the battery is the problem, is every board using the same type or are
there differences?
And one stupid one... Why isn't the board using the power supply for the
HW-clock, if power is available (which is the case in my case)?

Thanks and regards,
Eric

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