Posted by Walter Mautner on 06/25/07 05:14

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

.....
> OK, I'm not making myself clear. Yes, it is a different chip. But it's
> also tied closely into the system. Often times they are both run by the
> same interrupt, or, more often, the ToD clock chip actually generates
> the interrupts for the system.
>
> But the fact remains - this time can be off - and can result in a
> negative adjustment to the software clock.
>
Rather unimportant. Either your startup scripts fire up the ntp client with
a initial adjust (that may jump time) _before_ your software starts, or the
system isn't connected to a network and can't correct, so still runs
continuously (with time offset).

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