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Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift

From candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift
Date 2025-05-09 19:50 +0000
Organization the-candyden-of-code
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Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 19:18 this Thursday (GMT):
> How much does your system clock (not hardware clock) drift?
>
> I boot my GNU/Linux machines regularly and at each boot I set
> the system clock (and also the hardware clock) from the time
> servers at NIST using openrdate:
>
> https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/openrdate
>
> Openrdate will report a drift of about 0.7 seconds per day for all
> of my machines.
>
> How much does your system clock drift?
>
> Of course, using a standalone desktop workstation, such drift
> is of no consequence.  I could set the system clock far more
> frequently but what the fuck for?
>
> How much does your system clock drift?
>
> Can the distro lackeys even know?
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


I believe most distros set the hardware clock automatically based on the
UTC time fetched from ntp, so hw clock drift would be fixed
automatically anyways.. unless you're offline for an extended time.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-08 19:18 +0000
  Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-09 19:50 +0000
    Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-09 15:56 -0400
  Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-09 21:19 +0000
    Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-09 17:25 -0400
      Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-10 03:23 +0000
        Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-10 10:25 +0000
          Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-10 19:51 +0000
            Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-10 21:55 +0000
            Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-11 19:00 +0000
    Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-10 10:59 +0000
      Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 07:03 -0400
      Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-10 12:58 +0000
        Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-10 13:29 +0000
          Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 10:26 -0400
            Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-10 16:09 +0000
              Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-10 21:40 +0000
                Re: Farley Fucktard brags about setting his clock (was: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift) Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-05-11 14:51 +0000
                Re: Farley Fucktard brags about setting his clock (was: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift) Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-05-11 15:40 +0000
                Re: Farley Fucktard brags about setting his clock (was: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 15:02 -0400
              Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-12 01:26 +0000
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-05-16 20:32 +0000
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-05-16 13:41 -0700
            Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-11 07:02 -0400
              Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 08:01 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-11 09:24 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 15:01 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-11 16:14 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 16:21 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 03:39 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-12 03:45 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 04:14 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-12 04:26 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 09:27 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-12 10:26 +0000
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 09:28 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-12 14:05 +0000
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 10:27 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-12 14:51 +0000
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Scott Doty <doty@dooty.net> - 2025-05-12 11:00 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 12:01 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 11:03 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-12 20:30 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-11 20:28 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 20:32 -0400
                Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift Rudy Canoza <rudy.c@kone.net> - 2025-05-12 03:40 -0400

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