Re: System & Hardware clocks

[Lourens Steenkamp <lourens@dorje.co.za>]

Lourens replying to P V Mathew <pvmathew@softhome.net> wrote:

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>  How ever The system I am using has only a dial up connection
>  to the net. And that connection is used rarely only. In short it
>  is a stand alone desktop. Also I am a bit curious about the
>  questions I have raised above.
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>  Thanks
>  p v mathew

Try chrony.

"It consists of a pair of programs :
 `chronyd'.  This is a daemon which runs in background on the system. 
It obtains measurements (e.g. via the network) of the system's offset
relative to other systems, and adjusts the system time accordingly.  For
isolated systems, the user can periodically enter the correct time by
hand(using `chronyc').  In either case, `chronyd' determines the rate at
which the computer gains or loses time, and compensates for this. 
Chronyd implements the NTP protocol and can act as either a client or a
server.`chronyc'.  This is a command-line driven control and monitoring
program. An administrator can use this to fine-tune various parameters
within the daemon, add or delete servers etc whilst the daemon is
running."

HTH

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