From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 11: 1:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C551D37BF56 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:01:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA20106; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:01:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:01:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: Dave Runkle , Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Best Time Synch Utility Message-ID: <20000406130125.A19508@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i In-Reply-To: ; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Thu Apr 6 10:28:03 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Apr 06), Zhihui Zhang said: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Dave Runkle wrote: > > A really simple one (and it's in the ports) is 'rdate', but size > > ain't everything. ;) The pkg is only 4k in size. It can be done via > > cron, once daily, weekly, whatever, stuck in periodic, or even > > executed from the command line, to set time on your machine or just > > to check time. > > > > # /usr/local/sbin/rdate -s time.u.washington.edu > > Can you tell me how precision this command rdate can achieve (ms or us)? > Thanks. Not even that precise :). rdate only has 1-second accuracy. There is no reason to use rdate on FreeBSD at all, since ntpdate has millisecond accuracy and comes with FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message