Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Re: RTC driver

[Adam T. <ad...@io...>]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 13:39, JockyW wrote:
> I use NTP, but it doesn't work properly. I always get this:
> "Jan  1 01:03:32 cube ntpd[191]: time correction of 1083004124 seconds
> exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time."
> 
> I'd be happy to test your RTC driver.

NTP works OK, but a) you probably need a bigger sanity limit (like ten
million), and b) you do need to get it closer than the start of the
epoch.  What I do is to manually set the date to 1/1/04 in one of the
init.d scripts before running ntpdate.

Adam