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Re: how to set correct time?



Ross Boylan wrote (on 20 Apr 2001, at 10:58):

> I installed ntpdate and can get the time when I query, but any time I
> try to set the time I get the error
> 20 Apr 10:45:07 ntpdate[13883]: no server suitable for synchronization
> found
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work?  

It happened to me when I first set up ntpdate a couple weeks 
ago.

I *guessed* (caveat emptor) that the current system time was too 
far off for ntpdate to consider any of the received values 
plausible. So I used the ntpdate argument to just show results, 
not set the clock, then used date to set the clock more or less 
to the minute. After that, ntpdate worked (and is now adjusting 
time upon PPP dial-up but no more than once an hour).

T.

-- Tony Crawford
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