[mythtv-users] OT: System clock running very slow

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just thinking about this some more, I assume this time is being lost
> while the system is running. If so, the kernel is keeping track of the
> time (subject to being adjusted by ntpd or ntpdate). The bios/hardware
> clock is irrelevant while the system is running, it only supplies the
> time to the kernel at bootup. This much I know for sure.

That's exactly right.

If it helps for debugging purposes, you can always display the current
hardware clock time with the command "hwclock -r".  It would be
interesting to know if this is drifting as well.

Eric