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bmentink

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System time not ticking over correctly ...

Hi Guys,

I am having trouble with the system timer on a small atom based micro-pc which has a fresh install of Arch.

Monitoring with timedatectl, I see that my systemtime is not ticking over regularly and therefore NTP is correcting every few minutes and it all plays havok with playing
videos & syncronization etc ..

It just seems  systemtime only gets incremented irregularly between 7..12 seconds (instead of every second) ..... I tested that by disabling NTP.
Also, hwclock program just hangs when trying to read/write the hardware clock ..

Anyone know how to debug this?

Thanks

Last edited by bmentink (2016-02-06 05:43:59)

jasonwryan

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Re: System time not ticking over correctly ...

Have you tried using systemd-timesyncd? I found that worked much better on my RPi, which does not have a hardware clock.

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bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: System time not ticking over correctly ...

Have you tried using systemd-timesyncd? I found that worked much better on my RPi, which does not have a hardware clock.

Yes, I think when you use "timedatectl set-ntp true", as I am, it uses systemd-timesyncd as the tool to do the job.

But the NTP corrections are not the issue, why is systemtime not ticking over every second-ish ....

Last edited by bmentink (2016-02-06 05:49:28)