WRONG system clock; RIGHT hardware clock. How do I get Ubuntu to use hardware clock?

[zefew]

John,

Thanks a bunch for pointing me to the right direction. I tried several
approaches suggested in one of the links in #8 and found that appending "noapic
nolapic" option worked like a charm

I now have only 3 sec drift in 1 hour on average (where "drift" is calculated
from pool.ntp.org's time), which I would assume is not deviant.

To answer what you asked in your previous post:

kernel = 2.6.31-14-generic
os = ubuntu karmic

Thanks again.

[zefew]

By the way, "noapic nolapic" shouldn't cause a performance problem since my computer has Atom processor, which is single-core.

Disadvantage of noapic nolapic - Ubuntu Forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3000

Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller http://osdev.berlios.de/pic.html