I believe K is asking whether he can sync up the clock now because he's concerned about losing data, as 30-40 seconds is pretty bad.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Spencer Brown <lilspe...@gmail.com> wrote: > NTP gradually speeds or slows the clock to arrive at actual time. So the > clock still hits every second but 1s may really be 0.8s or 1.2s. In your > case, it will sync up within a day. NTP is very clever so you never have > newer files back-dated to be older than older files or vice versa. > > Spencer > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:03 AM, K F <kf200...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> the clock is about 30 to 40 seconds behind. >>> >> >> If you don't want to get ntp working there, why not just... manually... >> set the clocks? >> >> =Rob >> > >