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Subject: Re: System clock systems to be twice as fast as RTC
From: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
To: Subodh Nijsure <sunijsur@cisco.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:07:54 -0500
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On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:13 -0700, Subodh Nijsure wrote:
> The system clock seems to be running twice as as fast as RTC, 
> 
> sh-2.05b# date ; sleep 60 ; date
> Fri Sep 11 01:37:11 UTC 1970
> Fri Sep 11 01:37:41 UTC 1970

That's strange, but note that "date" reads the system clock and not the
RTC.  Use "hwclock" for the RTC.

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Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>