Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm a RedHat refugee, and sometimes I can just transfer things to
> debian, and sometimes not.
>
> I have an executable script, "time.rc" which has: 
>
>   #! /bin/bash
>   rdate -s time-b.nist.gov 
>   clock -w
>
> I installed rdate, and that seems to work fine to set the system clock
> (or at least the system clock jumped to 6 sec from what my local telco
> says the time is). However, the "clock" utility, which writes system
> time to the hardware clock is native to RedHat.
>
> So my first question is, what is debian's equivalent to "clock". All
> it did, with the -w option, was to set the hardware clock from the
> system clock. I presume the former is GMT, and so there is a time
> offset invoved.
>  
> Second, where to put it? I placed a copy of my time.rc into
> /etc/init.d, and then created a symlink to it in /etc/rc2.d so that
> the hardware clock is reset on boot, and also in /etc/cron.daily, so
> that the clocks are reset daily according to NIST. Will this work; is
> there a better arrangement?
>
> Haines Brown   

I use the ntp and ntp-simple packages.  These are the public time
servers I use in /etc/ntp.conf:

server ntp2.usno.navy.mil
server ntp-1.vt.edu
server ntp-2.vt.edu

HTH,

-Roberto

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