On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:48:38 +1200 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll see what date shows me tomorrow. Google tells me that some people > have resolved this issue by appending "noapic acpi=off" to grub. If I > am still getting nowhere then I believe having cron do "service ntp stop > && service ntp start" for me a few times an hour will work. > > Cheers, > Roger No, it won't! the ntp daemon resets your local time against an external source. This runs constantly, and is capable of a) learning how your machine's clock drifts, and b) making small changes to keep it in step. To make large changes, you need to use ntpdate, which is an one off process, rather than constant. Historically, ntpdate was run once as a part of the ntpd init script, putting the clock right on startup with ntpdate, and then keeping it correct from then on with ntpd. Steve.
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