Major Clock Drift

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:48:08AM -0400, Josh Pollak wrote:
> Thanks, I'll use this. I would still like to know what's up with my 
> clock though. This much drift is not normal.

It certainly is.

The RTC in your machine is probably rated at 100 parts per
million maximum failure. Multiply by 86,400 seconds per day, 100 ticks
per second, and you get an assumed clock drift of 8.64 seconds
per day.

Anything better than that is simply your RTC doing better than
specified. 

-dsr-