Re: Utility to set PC clock
> (Greenwich Meantime or however you spell it) on your system clock.
> Then you can set the timezone in software so that time shows up
> properly.
Yes, this is generally considered teh "right" way to run a *nix box.
> Secondly, I think there is some way of getting your machine to automatically
> adjust for time drift, but I don't know what it is.
xntpd (install the debian package). There's a list of time servers
somewhere under http://www.cis.udel.edu/~ntp/
> netdate is the command I used to get the time on the net. Eg you could
The equivalent xntp command is ntpdate.
Will
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