Major Clock Drift

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:24:27AM -0400, Josh Pollak wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2004, at 8:56 AM, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> 
> >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.

[Explanation snipped]

> Thats over a full minute of drift in one week. I find that hard to 
> believe. Perhaps the RTC is inaccurate as a trade off for providing so 
> many ticks per second, but I've never seen a computer's clock drift 
> this quickly, even when we weren't running NTP.

OK, it's magic pixies that have laid a curse on your computer.

-dsr-