[Debian-eeepc-devel] clock lacks behind

[Juha Heinanen]

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com writes:

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

trend,

debian eeepc is a laptop, which means that often i'm using it with gprs
network connectivity, where i need to pay for the bytes.  i don't know
how much running ntp would consume in an hour.

this morning i setup ppp connection and run ntpdate-debian at

07:34:35

now about four hours later when i run ntdate-debian again, it reports
899 seconds offset:

root at rautu:~# ntpdate-debian 
12 May 11:41:37 ntpdate[26601]: step time server 194.100.2.198 offset 899.850821 sec

which is quite a lot.

how is is possible that a modern laptop has lots its ability to keep its
time straight?  i don't remember seeing this kind of behavior with my
earlier laptops.

-- juha