Re: OT: What time is it, really?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On Friday 10 August 2018 05:54:22 Anders Andersson wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> 
wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 August 2018 12:26:24 Martin wrote:
> >> Am 09.08.2018 um 18:15 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> >> > On Thursday 09 August 2018 11:16:27 Martin wrote:
> >> >> Am 09.08.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Nicolas George:
> >> >
> >> > Then I suggest you reread man ntp.conf, and /etc/ntp.conf, and
> >> > edit it as root until you do understand it. Note that changes to
> >> > take effect, need a root session of "service ntp restart".
> >>
> >> Wrong topic, may be?
> >> I used to use ntpd. Then tried systemd-timesyncd to act a a server.
> >> Which it will not do. Hence, I run ntpd.
> >
> > Wrong topic? Note that nowhere in that portion of my msg you
> > snipped, was systemd.timesyncd mentioned. It may have been in some
> > other part of that message that I didn't author, and which you also
> > snipped.
> > You might want to let some of the stuffing out of that shirt. I was
> > trying to be helpfull because the docs do suck a bit.  And helpfull
> > people are harder and harder to find because of folks with an
> > attitude
>
> You're the one with the attitude here. Martin claimed that the
> documentation for systemd-timesyncd sucked, and that it can not serve
> time to a local network. You then go on to lecture him about reading
> the documentation for NTP, "until you understand it", something he
> obviously already does since he is already using it. After he
> clarified the context, Instead of apologizing you reply with an attack
> about his stuffed shirt.

Maybe stuffed shirt was over-reaction, but from what was written, I got 
the impression that Martin did not understand ntp all that well. If he 
does in fact understand its theory, then my apologies.

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