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  • Re: Timekeeping

    From Handsome Jack@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 13, 2026 04:17:51
    On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:12:54 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:08:49 -0500, Paul wrote:

    My time is off by 1.835 seconds at the moment. The last sync was 30
    minutes ago.

    That sounds unusually bad. On my systems, the time stays accurate to
    within a second.

    From years ago, I would do tests like

    ssh ®customer?s premises machine¯ time time

    and have both show the same time.

    Strange thing: since fixing this, I have noticed that my machine does a
    brief disk access every hour, exactly on the hour, right to a second. You
    can hear it going clickety-click. Doesn't seem to be linked to the ntp synchronisation timing, or to any third party apps.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.11
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