Subject: Re: Clock skew like mad?
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: current-users
Date: 08/28/2006 21:40:31
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:14:33 -0500
seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:

> So, I was noticing that my clock is drifting behind rather rapidly.
> 
> # date
> Mon Aug 28 14:10:01 CDT 2006
> # sleep 60
> # date
> Mon Aug 28 14:10:43 CDT 2006
> 
> What's really odd is, "sleep 60" slept for, so far as I can tell, just about
> exactly 60 seconds.
> 
> I am a bit light on explanations of this one.  I am not running ntp, and have
> never previously needed it.  I don't know immediately of any significant
> changes in my environment.  Running -current:
> 
> NetBSD vash.cel.plethora.net 4.99.1 NetBSD 4.99.1 (VASH) #0: Tue Aug 15 16:26:45 CDT 2006 seebs@vash.cel.plethora.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/VASH i386
> 
> will update and see what happens.  But I figure this one's weird enough to
> ask about.

Seems to work fine here:

[juan@nocturno][~]> date && sleep 60 && date
Mon Aug 28 21:38:02 CEST 2006
Mon Aug 28 21:39:02 CEST 2006
[juan@nocturno][~]>

This is -current as of few hours ago and userland from today.