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Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time



Rick Thomas wrote:
> Ahhh...  So the installer time-setter uses rdate, not NTP?  A wise choice, 
> now that I think about it.  Much lighter weight protocol, and the client is 
> much *much* smaller.
>
> Infact, rdate doesn't even use SNTP.

rdate, as used by the installer, uses SNTP.

> The point remains.  The uncertainty in the time from the server is 
> proportional (or worse) to the network delay.

Not with SNTP it isn't, AFAIK.

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