From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Fast Clock <fastclock@earthlink.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux system clock is running 3x too fast
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:06:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41299775.6090605@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093233957.3094.49.camel@apc>
Fast Clock wrote:
>My Athlon 64 laptop (HP Pavilion zv5000z) dual-boots Linux and Windows
>XP. The Windows system clock is running accurately but the Linux system
>clock is running 3 times too fast.
>
>The problem occurs in all of the Linux distributions and releases that
>I've tried, including Suse 9.1, Fedora Core 1 & 2, kernel versions
>2.4.x, 2.6.x (up to 2.6.8-1.521), 32-bit & 64-bit releases.
>
>
This is a feature. The kernel detects users with the name fastclock
and accordingly speeds up the clock for them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-23 7:06 UTC|newest]
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2004-08-23 4:05 PROBLEM: Linux system clock is running 3x too fast Fast Clock
2004-08-23 7:06 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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2004-08-23 13:52 ` Fast Clock
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