Updating and displaying CMOS clock

[Victor Sudakov]

RW wrote:
> 
> > And no, contrary to popular belief, the correction of the CMOS clock
> > does not happen automatically in FreeBSD even if ntpd is running.
> 
> Are you sure about that? 

I am pretty sure about 8.4-RELEASE.

> That used to be the case, but I thought it was
> fixed in 10-CURRENT.

I really know nothing about CURRENT, maybe you are right and it was
fixed there.

> 
> I haven't set my hardware clock manually in more than a year, and it's
> out by less than a second.

My experience is different.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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