[mythtv-users] Fedora 7 clock drift

[Mike Perkins]

Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> I am wondering if any Myth users have been seeing clock-drift with Fedora 7. I 
> was wondering what was going on when my evening recordings began to start 
> noticeably late. For years I have used ntpdate to sync my clock at 1 minute 
> after 4am and log the result. On my Myth box pre-Fedora 7 the time difference 
> was around 0 - usually -0.7 seconds. The day I upgraded I started logging 
> differences of 12 seconds, every single day. I _vaguely_remember reading 
> something about this happening in recent kernels (when the CPU governor is 
> used) but no amount of Googling turns up any similar references.
> 
> Anyone else noticed this? I started noticing when the 11pm news started 
> getting about 10 seconds clipped off the front.

Is ntpd an option for you? It's what I use on all my pcs.

Mike Perkins