Re: 500 ms offset in i386 Real Time Clock setting

Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-06T20:20:21Z

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:35:52AM -0800, BJerrick@easystreet.com wrote:
> Neither hwclock nor the /dev/rtc driver takes the following comment from
> set_rtc_mmss() in arch/i386/kernel/time.c into account. As a result, using
> hwclock --systohc or --adjust always leaves the Hardware Clock 500 ms ahead of
> the System Clock:

I mailed a patch to Andries Brouwer yesterday for exactly the
same problem if hwclock writes writes to the cmos directly, and
said to check if other places have the same problem.

I added an usleep() of 500 ms in cmos.c

Kurt