[LEAPSECS] Motherboard timekeeping quirks

[Hal Murray]

Steve Allen said:
> UCO/Lick knows that, even with the best available version of NTP, the sloppy
> (or even lack of) hardware clock on some motherboards means that some
> Windows systems cannot do better than 1 to 2 seconds. 

Are there really motherboards out there that are so badly broken than they 
can't keep decent time?

Or is the problem that kernel software doesn't do the right thing with some 
combination of features?

What does Linux or ???BSD do on that hardware?


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