On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:36:43PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Lars Nooden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I've got a small system running 5.2-stable and the clock seems off. NTP
> > is making entries like this on startup:
> >
> > Jan 31 10:15:31 net5501 ntpd[20060]: adjusting local clock by 93.846882s
> >
> > I've looked around in the mail archives for various mailing lists and have
> > the impression that a proper shutdown (using shutdown) will sync the
> > hardware clock.
>
> The shutdown(8) command doesn't directly sync the RTC; boot(9) does.
> You need to perform an actual halt or reboot for this to happen.
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
And remember ntpd takes it's time to adjust the clock.
Set the clock once by hand or use rdate once if you are impatient.
-Otto
