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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Fast Clock <fastclock@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux system clock is running 3x too fast
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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.