On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Doug McNutt <dougl...@macnauchtan.com> wrote: > This 8500 running OS 9.1 and my favorite versions of Excel, MPW, Interarchy, > and Eudora has come up with a problem. > > It can't keep time! It seems very accurate to the second when compared to a > Ubuntu Linux box and an OS 10.3.9 Mac but it's off by precisely four minutes. > > The Date and Time control panel offers only three Apple operated time servers > for the US, Asia, and Europe. They all set my clock off by 4 minutes. But it > seems to be a very precise 4 minutes. > > I think I have corrected the problem by adding some other time servers to the > list. > > MIT (18.26.4.105) seems to work fine. > > Univ of Colorado Boulder which is closer (128,138.140.44) doesn't seem to get > things right but the error is less than 4 minutes. > > A couple of others just don't reply. > > So. . . . > > Does anyone have any ideas? There is a plurality of protocols but I have no > idea what Apple used in OS9. Has Apple changed its servers so they no longer > support the classic OS? > >
I would be tempted to configure the Ubuntu box as an NTP server and then setting the 8500 to sync to the Ubuntu box, you can then see if the time stays in sync with the Ubuntu box on which you can see the time that it thinks it is. Cheers Arne -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
