But the date is actually wrong, It corrupts very quickly.  This machine
has never had a problem with the date before...



On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:39, Steve Juranich wrote:
> Mat Branyon wrote:
> > I just recently switched to gentoo.  I am using fluxbox and it never
> > seems to keep the time correct.  I just updated the time via ntpdate
> > (which is also set in my crontab to run every nite).  It had the right
> > time, but now I look at it and it's roughly an hour and ten minutes
> > fast.  What does this kind of error mean?  How would I fix it?
> > 
> > 
> > This is the ntpdate output:
> > 
> > 24 Feb 14:25:30 ntpdate[15564]: adjust time server 140.221.8.88 offset
> > -0.208179 sec
> 
> It's not an error.  Don't worry about fixing it.  It's just ntpdate's 
> way of telling you what it did to set your clock.  In your crontab, 
> append this to your ntpdate line: ">/dev/null 2>&1" and you won't get 
> any more of these reports from cron.
> 
> HTH


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