Actually, USNO is the source for NIST's time. The master time clock at USNO
is the official time for the US.
--- John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Civileme said:
> > > "rdate -s (yourfavoritetimeserver); hwclock --systohc" (without
> >
> > What is a good choice for "yourfavoritetimeserver"? Please give the full
> URL or
> > whatever goes in the linuxconf field.
> >
> Two that I use regularly are time.nist.gov (Nat'l Institute of Standards.
> If
> THEY don't know what time it is, who does? <G>) and tock.usno.navy.mil...
> the
> military has a need to know EXACT time as well, so I guess THEY should know
> the
> time. And, they agree with NIST on the time (that is, as close as they can
> one
> right after the other -- a couple seconds difference in the amount of time
> it
> takes to change the URL <G>)
> John
>
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