Re: [iPAQ] Inaccurate time on iPAQ

And actually, this morning, after a reboot, I found it was only about a 30
minute skew (*forward* in time), but a skew nonetheless. The date was fine;
only the time was wrong, in both cases.

Me:
> For what it's worth, I have also seen some clock skew (about 8 hours worth),
> but I put it down to having reboot the unit, rather than to it having been
> asleep.
>
> It would be nice if there were some way to preserve the RTC under all
> conditions except total battery drain.
>
> Jamey:
> > The RTC runs at the same speed while asleep as while awake. Are you
> > experiencing significant RTC drift? Are you running ntpd to maintain
> > time while it is awake? Can you give me a more quantitative value for
> > "skews badly"?
>
> Timothy:
> > > I've noticed that, the iPAQ, when left for more than a few
> > > hours (asleep)
> > > with no external power, the rtc skews badly. Is there some
> > > way to make it
> > > retain time better while asleep? (I'm on the latest
> > > 2.4.16-rmk1 kernel)
Received on Mon Feb 4 07:54:42 2002