Slow System Clock

[shriman]

I am new to Sun environment. I have many types of SUN boxes- 6800, E10K, etc... On all these servers, the system clocks are slow - after setting it, after a week it falls behind by 30 minutes or so. I know I can sync clocks with time server but I have not seen this type of problem with other UNIX boxes like IBM or HP.

Is this something with SUN solaris or problem with my environment? I am on SUNOS 5.8

 

[jad]

our systems use rdate daily early in the morning, via the crontab. older machines with bad batteries (x86 machines) are always bad with the time.