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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Paul Sack wrote:
> I have a small problem: My router's BIOS is non-Y2K compliant, so the date
> resets to 1994 when it reboots. I'd like it to fix itself. I am already
> using xntpd, but when xntpd detects a difference of even an hour, it
> syslogs a message saying that the clock should be manually fixed.
>
> I could hack the client to fix this, but the ntp protocol makes very
> gradual changes to the clock, so this would still not be a good solution.
>
> I found out that there is something called "rdate" that might accomplish
> what I want (that is, the system to get the current date and time from
> another server when it boots). Does anyone know of any public rdate
> servers? (I've been googling for a while and found nothing.) Or any other
> methods to accomplish this?
>
> Paul
>
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