Re: System clock
my 2c
The previously mentioned OSX time setting feature has caused me some
grief with ntpd. ntpdate did not seem to be better behaved either.
However, the whole thing goes bezerk when you let your powerbook die
with an exhausted battery.
ntpd works for me, OSX does also have a time server setting and with
luck if you use the same one they seem to track (from my experience).
ntpd will die if the offset exceeds some limit (maybe 1hr??). you can
track ntpd with ntpq or ntpdc
apt-get ntp-simple
david
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:36, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> > > My system clock is losing about 15 minutes a week. Any ideas why this
> > > might be? A battery perhaps? Or is it normal? If I remember rightly OSX
> > > uses some sort of network time server to set the system clock. Is there an
> > > equivalent GNU/Linux compatible service out there?
> >
> > I'm experiencing the same problem, not only when coming back from
> > suspend. ntp-server is doing all kinds of stuff, but seems to refuse to
> > do anything with my clock, running ntpdate works. This problem was
> > introduced since 2.6 for me.
>
> Plain ntp refuses to change the system clock if it's too far off. Ntpdate
> always updates the clock to the correct time.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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