On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:49:57AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote:
> 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.

Er, yes. Thanks.

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