[Debian-eeepc-devel] clock lacks behind

[Trent W. Buck]

Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> writes:

> i call ntpdate-debian when network interface comes up and have verified
> that after that, date shows correct time.  during the day, clocks starts
> to lack behind a few minutes per hour.

Run ntpd.  AFAIK ntpdate's functionality has been entirely absorbed into
ntpd as at Squeeze.

> could this have something to do with dynamic cpu frequency scaling?

AFAIK that's a large drift, but not unusually so.  Running ntpd instead
of a one-off ntpdate will continually correct this drift.