In article <[email protected]>,
Harlan Stenn  <[email protected]> wrote:
[I wrote:]
>> What is actually needed at boot time is usually neither of these
>> things.  It's more like "if the clock needs to be stepped
>> backwards, figure this out as quickly as possible, before any
>> important services start, accepting that there is some small chance
>> that an additional step in either direction may be required."
>
>Sounds reasonable - how do we do it?

Well, I do it by using ntpdate(1) and choosing the servers carefully.

-GAWollman

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Garrett A. Wollman   | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
[email protected]| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those   | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL.     | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness

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