[1572] in RedHat Linux List
Re: setting system time from cmos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Tue Oct 29 02:18:46 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:15:54 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft,com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
To: Prasanth Kumar <kumar1@home.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <32759868.631D@home.com>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> Daniel M. Drucker wrote:
> >
> > My CMOS clock only loses/gains about a second every month or two.
> > Linux's clock, on the other hand, seems to lose about 10 seconds
> > a day. Is there anything bad about putting a 'clock -us' in crontab
> > to run every few hours?
>
> I know there is a program around which will synchronize your clock
> to the u.s naval clock or something similar over the internet. Have it
> executed once every day when you are logged onto the internet.
It's called xntpd - and there's an contributed rpm...
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