Clock in Linux gaining time

[tyreth]

I have this really wierd problem - my clock seems to gain around 10 minutes every 2 days or so. Rebooting doesn't seem to cause it to gain time. Booting my win32 partition doesn't make it gain time. Neither does turning it off completely then on again. But I notice, after a day or two, that it's gained another 10 minutes!

This is very irritating for setting the time, so I was wondering if anyone had any idea what was going on?

Thanks

[Naan Yaar]

This monster thread will give you a lot of things you can try. Please post additional questions to that thread if suggestions there do not work (relevant things: jiffies, ntp, ...)

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