Re: [9fans] incorrect system time

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 11/24/06, Myron Cheung <onyx.peridot@gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the plan9.iso a few days ago, and when I load it up in qemu,
> the system time is off by more than 6 years.  However, I never had this
> problem when I ran an older version of plan9 (about 3 years older).  I
> searched through the archive of 9fans, and there were some mention of a
> similar clock drift problem on other platforms.  Anyways, I checked /dev/rtc
> and /dev/time.  It appears that /dev/rtc is correct while /dev/time is way
> off.  If I do "cat /dev/rtc > /dev/time", the clock gets reset to its
> correct value, but after a few minutes, it reverts back to an incorrect
> value.

I am still seeing the same problem. I think I fixed this in Xen by
taking the clock interrupt but always picking up the value of the time
from the rtc, but I am not sure. But there is definitely a problem
here.

ron