6 Mar
2011
6 Mar
'11
8:43 p.m.
--On Friday, March 04, 2011 3:04 PM -0500 "Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane" todd.denniston@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.