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Re: Setting system time/date

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Oct 28 14:43:34 1998

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:23:02 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: jivany@nbnet.nb.ca, RedHat Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Jeff Ivany wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I was wondering if there is any way to have my system time synced with
> some standard time.  The reason I ask is my system seems to pick up
> minutes at a great rate. I set it and my wall clock to the same time a
> week ago and now the computer is almost 10 minutes faster.

Make a cron job that runs       rdate -s clock.psu.edu
or use a time server closer to you.  It will set you time
to within a second or so of the time server.

>
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated!
>
> Jeff
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> Jeff Ivany      jivany@nbnet.nb.ca
>    UNB Electrical Engineering V
> http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jivany
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Jan Carlson
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