Jim Cheetham wrote: > Now, in the case of a home PC, you're generally not worried about > setting up such a system, and you definately don't need to worry about > speeding-up or slowing-down the clock - jumping it is probably the right > thing to do.
One thing to watch out for is that some software will break if the clock is suddenly shifted. Squid used to crash whenever I synchronised my clock. Took me a few days to track down as I was auto-synching in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script. Newer versions of Squid are OK though. The system clock on my server gains about a minute a day. This discussion just prompted me to re-enable the auto-sync so hopefully nothing will stop working... (nothing important has broken so far after doing it manually). > [1] Is there an authoratative source for NTP servers in NZ? I see a > list gets occasionally posted here, > http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0212/msg00451.html ... There's a worldwide list at http://www.ntp.org/ (link on the right hand side of the page) which shows a few NZ servers. I'm surprised that there are no public servers in chch. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
