Re: 500 ms offset in i386 Real Time Clock setting

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:56:30 +0100 (MET)

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> Neither hwclock nor the /dev/rtc driver takes the following comment from
> set_rtc_mmss() in arch/i386/kernel/time.c into account.
> As a result, using hwclock --systohc or --adjust always leaves the
> Hardware Clock 500 ms ahead of the System Clock

By pure coincidence Q@ping.be sent me patches just one day ago.
I still have to look at the details, but it seems very likely
that this will be corrected in the next util-linux release.

Andries
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