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RE: Setting system time/date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soffen, Matthew)
Thu Oct 29 08:47:40 1998
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <msoffen@iso-ne.com>
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:48:26 -0500
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You could also run xntpd (Network Time Daemon). It will
keep your system clock in synch with the time servers.
Matthew Soffen - Webmaster http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> ----------
> From: Raymond Popowich[SMTP:popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 4:33 PM
> To: Jan Carlson
> Cc: jivany@nbnet.nb.ca; RedHat Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Setting system time/date
>
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> after that, you will want to run the 'setclock' command so that it
> changes the time in your bios as well as in Linix. (so you still
> have the correct time after a reboot/crash)
>
>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Jan Carlson
> >> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
> >> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.1
> >>
>
> -----
> Raymond Popowich
> popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu
> http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~popowich/
>
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