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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:21:59 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        dave@netcarrier.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Micro-adjusting system clock?
Message-ID:  <19990817102159.A66341@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <7pbtmv$efsa@eGroups.com>; from "dave@netcarrier.com" on Tue Aug 17 08:05:03 GMT 1999
References:  <7pbtmv$efsa@eGroups.com>

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In the last episode (Aug 17), dave@netcarrier.com said:
> System V variants of Unix have a handy feature in "date" that will make
> a series of micro-adjustments to your system clock over a period of
> time, to save you the risk of "wrinkles" in time that you might get by
> doing one, big adjustment.
> 
> But the FreeBSD (3.0) that we're running doesn't appear to have such an
> option.  Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD? How do other people
> accomplish this safely?

xntpd is the preferred way to synch clocks; Have one machine pull time
from your ISP's ntp server (most have one), and have the rest synch to
that box.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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