From the man page of hwclock:
This mode (we'll call it "11 minute mode") is off until something turns it on. The ntp daemon xntpd is one thing that turns it on. You can
Ok, I have a virtualbox linux guest without ntp client. There's a 2 minute difference:
$ date
Tue Mar 11 18:09:54 MSK 2014
$ hwclock
Tue 11 Mar 2014 06:08:23 PM MSK -0.409965 seconds
How to enable 11 minute mode?
$ adjtimex --print
status: 64
64 means "disabled", right? http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man8/adjtimex.8.html
64 clock unsynchronized
I thought this will enable the mode
$ sudo adjtimex --status 0
But it didn't. Status is still 64
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