Re: setting time via a server?
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> I currently use a small script/executable combination named st/gettime to
> set my system clock via an atomic server. This is done as a cronjob at
> 3am and immediately after the system time is written to the cmos time
> (clock -w). For some unknown reason, once and awhile when I come in to my
> office in the morning, the time is correct, but the date is advanced
> forward by one day. Is there some other method of doing this that will set
> the date as well as the time from a internet server? st will only do the
> time. Also, I would prefer not to run xntp - it seems wasteful to me to
> have it running continuously to just set the clock every 24 hours. Can
> xntp be used as a one-off program and put into a crontab? Cheers.
Try netdate or rdate.
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