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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: GNU/Linux System Clock Drift
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 19:50:04 -0000 (UTC)
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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.
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