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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:29:13 -0500
From:      Steve Leibel <stevel@bluetuna.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: synchrnozing time among a freebsd, linux and windows2k machine
Message-ID:  <v04210105b698d1c22352@[24.168.80.161]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271409120.6200-100000@dragonstar.dhs.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101271409120.6200-100000@dragonstar.dhs.org>

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At 2:21 PM -0500 1/27/01, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>I'd like to setup my freebsd server to every so often update it's time
>against a 'known' intenet clock, but also have a slackware and a win2k
>machine update their clocks off the freebsd machine so that I can avoid
>annoyances such as make's famous 'file has modification time in the
>future', etc.


Look up NTP, the Network Time Protocol.

You can set up your machines to synch up against a known, 
highly-accurate clock; or you can set up one machine as an NTP server 
and have your other machines synch to it.

Steve



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