/bin/date differs 10-12 minutes from Windows time

Bernhard Voelker mail@bernhard-voelker.de
Tue Aug 9 17:48:00 GMT 2011



On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Voelker, Bernhard (Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:28:42 +0200)
>> I'm experiencing windows time (which is right) being constantly 10-12
>> minutes behind GNU's time:
>>
>>    $ cmd.exe /c time /t ; /bin/date
>>    09:21
>>    Fri Jul 29 09:33:22 WEDT 2011
>>
>> I've seens this for several weeks on this PC now.
>>
>> Why is that? If it were 1 or 2 hours, I'd say it a TZ issue ...
>
> Probably http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00838.html
>
> Thorsten

yes, that's it.
I am using NTP, and the XP machine (and cygwin) was up a few weeks.
Strange issue ...

Berny

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