time runs too slow on maple

[Olaf Hering]

 On Tue, Jan 10, Paul Mackeras wrote:

> Olaf Hering writes:
> 
> > The maple board I have cant keep the time, even with ntpd running.
> > According to this script, it loses 0.05 seconds each second.
> 
> Ouch!  Does the RTC keep reasonable time?

Yes, RTC seems to work ok. sometimes ntp probably syncs system time with
RTC:


maple:~ # while sleep 1 ; do /usr/sbin/ntpdate -qs ntp ; date ; hwclock ; done
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 32.608087, delay 0.02615
Tue Jan 10 00:27:39 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:13 2006  -0.572528 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 32.689348, delay 0.02621
Tue Jan 10 00:27:41 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:15 2006  -0.766481 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 32.781137, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:27:43 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:17 2006  -0.765355 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 32.872565, delay 0.02615
Tue Jan 10 00:27:45 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:19 2006  -0.763836 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 32.964229, delay 0.02615
Tue Jan 10 00:27:47 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:21 2006  -0.767184 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.056369, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:27:49 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:23 2006  -0.760217 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.147633, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:27:51 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:25 2006  -0.773483 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.239591, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:27:53 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:27 2006  -0.771131 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.331641, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:27:54 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:29 2006  -0.768826 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.423449, delay 0.02612
Tue Jan 10 00:27:56 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:31 2006  -0.767866 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.515708, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:27:58 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:33 2006  -0.760823 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.607123, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:00 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:35 2006  -0.773621 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.699374, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:02 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:37 2006  -0.767083 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.790244, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:04 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:39 2006  -0.771400 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.880961, delay 0.02615
Tue Jan 10 00:28:06 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:08 2006  -0.770181 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 33.972368, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:08 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:10 2006  -0.764428 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.062557, delay 0.02615
Tue Jan 10 00:28:10 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:12 2006  -0.764004 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.153711, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:12 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:14 2006  -0.743031 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.243755, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:14 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:16 2006  -0.762338 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.334527, delay 0.02618
Tue Jan 10 00:28:15 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:18 2006  -0.761979 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.424818, delay 0.02618
Tue Jan 10 00:28:17 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:20 2006  -0.761000 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.514786, delay 0.02617
Tue Jan 10 00:28:19 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:22 2006  -0.776019 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.605888, delay 0.02612
Tue Jan 10 00:28:21 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:24 2006  -0.770221 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.695758, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:23 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:26 2006  -0.774996 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.786565, delay 0.02614
Tue Jan 10 00:28:25 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:28 2006  -0.773076 seconds
server 195.135.220.2, stratum 2, offset 34.877303, delay 0.02617
Tue Jan 10 00:28:27 CET 2006
Tue Jan 10 00:28:30 2006  -0.768670 seconds



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