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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 06:25:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject:   Re: Setting time from bios
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980329062715.dhh@androcles.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803281601.JAA03060@mt.sri.com>

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On 28-Mar-98 Nate Williams wrote:
>> >> Our servers run rather fast
>...
>> Why do I need to run "yet another deamon" on my servers when I have a
>> perfectly accurate clock in the machine?
>
>Because you don't have a perfectly accurate clock in the machine. :)
>
>You can tweak with the settings to try and figure out which timer in the
>system generates more accurate time.  Bruce posted about this a long time
>ago, so it's probably in the archives.  It should be documented
>somewhere (if it is, it should be documented somewhere more obvious). :)

http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/pubs/hownist/howpcc.html

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Duane H. Hesser
dhh@androcles.com

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