[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas J. Koenig) writes:
> >>>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:47:42 +0000, Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
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>
> > As far as I'm concerned this is not a failure, and looks bad for me, as
> > I don't make a habit of correcting the clock on my machine every time I
> > do a release.
>
> Maybe you could hook your machine to NTP service? Then you would never
> have to correct your time manually again. NTP is free of charge and
> low on bandwidth consumtion. Are there any reasons why you cannot/want
> not use it?
>
If for some reason it's not possible to use NTP, then you can just
check your clock against some daytime service with a simple perl
one-liner:
$ perl -MIO::Socket::INET -e 'print IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerHost =>
"time.fu-berlin.de", PeerPort => "daytime")->getline; print scalar localtime,
"\n"'
Sat Mar 29 17:17:06 2008
Sat Mar 29 17:17:07 2008
Note that it seems that this server uses local time, so you would need
to adjust the difference between CE(S)T and GMT(/BST).
Last time I looked at Windows Vista it seemed that NTP is enabled by
default there.
I would also like to add that clock+timezone problems may cause other
problems. See
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=37917&cid=59559
Regards,
Slaven
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