On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 13:15:13 -0700, Rick wrote in message <20210620201513.gs12...@linuxmafia.com>:
> For those who want to set the time hillybilly-style, i.e., Just Do It ...by e.g. pointing your favorite web browser to https://time.is/ and copy the time error into the middle date command line after the "-s": "date --rfc-3339=ns &&date --rfc-3339=ns -s '+0.096 seconds' &&date \ --rfc-3339=ns " ..the first "date" command shows your computer's opinion of the time, the second "date" command forces your opinion, right or wrong, upon it, the third "date" command shows your computer's obedient opinion of the time after a wee little while, aka after a few milliseconds. ..the "--rfc-3339=ns" nicely and verbosely shows you when time keeping is best handed over to ntp, rather than trying to nail it down with https://time.is/ reloads. > and Yes, My System Clock Is Possibly Way Off, ..aye, https://time.is/ will happily tell you "Your time is exact!" anytime you're inside its error margins. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
