By the way, I also tried the most recent version of plan9.iso on a Dell PC
(celeron 2.8GHZ), the clock comes up correct.

On 11/25/06, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>