F10: PC clock lacking behind with 20 minutes

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Affix <affix at ihack.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>   Have you tried to set the interval when it syncs with the ntp server?
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> after upgrade to F10 I noticed that the my laptop has begun to show
>> incorrect
>> time. What I did yesterday is:
>>
>> 1) Set the BIOS clock to correct time (UTC)
>> 2) Boot the computer and adjust ntp, time zone, etc...
>> 3) after one day now the pc shows incorrect time with about 20 minutes
>> offset.
>>
>> I've never had such problems with F9 or other distros. Any ideas how can I
>> debug
>> what's going wrong ?

Silly question, but could your motherboard battery be run down? It's
hard to see how an ntp problem could give you clock drift of 20
minutes in only a day.

poc