[CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Sun Mar 6 19:43:47 UTC 2011


--On Friday, March 04, 2011 3:04 PM -0500 "Denniston, Todd A CIV 
NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane" <todd.denniston at navy.mil> wrote:

> Not if you are running ntp and it was able to sync, because ntpd
> activates a mode in the kernel that sets the hwclock every 11 minutes
> when ntp declares it got synced.

Thanks, this is the part I was unaware of. So that obviates any need for a 
cron job.





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