On 16 Jul, Stephen Witt wrote: > I have some experience with xntp on a group of Sun workstations I used > to have. xntp is a lot more sophisticated than just querying for the > time and setting it locally every n period of time. <snip> One thing I have noticed; PC clocks are pieces of junk. Mine drifts obscenely if I don't run xntp constantly. Now, I had a very nice connection for nine months out of the last year, and because of xntp, my clock was more accurate than the school's main bells. There's a down side, of course; it really works best when xntp can correct the drift whenever it feels like it. I have a (non demand based; we've only got the one line, and it's rude of me to snatch it away all the time) PPP connection now, and occasionally I lose several hours for obscure reasons, and have to reset my clock. I imagine this will be much better when I can get my authentic real connection again in a few months. -- Graham Hughes <ghughes@cs.ucsb.edu> MIME OK, PGP preferred from stddisclaim import footer pgp_fingerprint = "E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B"
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