On Sunday 15 December 2002 10:09 am, Henry House wrote:
> One more suggestion: try ntpdate, a daemonless version of NTP. It will not
> abruptly change the system time like rdate if the local clock is off by a
> large amount...

Don't you mean a small amount?  From
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/ntpdate.html:

    Time adjustments are made by ntpdate in one of two ways. 
    If ntpdate determines the clock is in error more than 
    0.5 second it will simply step the time by calling the 
    system settimeofday() routine. If the error is less than 
    0.5 seconds, it will slew the time by calling the system 
    adjtime() routine. The latter technique is less 
    disruptive and more accurate when the error is small, 
    and works quite well when ntpdate is run by cron every 
    hour or two.

Cheers,

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

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