Clock skew on FC13

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/07/2010 03:10 PM, Tim wrote:
>
> I'd still check, or simply replace, the battery.  Some PCs do weird
> things when their battery goes flat, even though it really ought to work
> fine while the power is on (the CMOS is, usually, powered by the main
> power supply as well as the battery).

I agree it wouldn't hurt to check, but AFAIK, Linux only reads the CMOS 
clock on startup and until shutdown keeps track of time using CPU cycles 
-- which is why clock skew bugs showed up when CPU started clocking down 
on the fly to save power...