Hi,
There's been a good deal of good advice already but I just wanted to add
my two yen.
o1bigtenor via Dng writes:
> Greetings
>
> Noticed that my new Beowulf install time was not accurate.
>
> Went looking for a tips page and all I could find was information
> relating to using systemd and or
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng said on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:08:49 +0900
>Hi Rick,
>
>Rick Moen writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> The only client to point and laugh at is systemd-timesyncd.
>
>I think it's fair to point out that systemd-timesyncd only promises
>Simple NTP (SNTP). How good a job it does of that
On Mon 21/Jun/2021 00:52:42 +0200 karl wrote:
Rick Moen:
...
https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
...
Thanks for the link.
And for the heads-up.
I've been using ntpdate-debian every 30 minutes for years. After tuning the HW
clock, the adjustment is usually less than
Hi Rick,
Rick Moen writes:
> [...]
>
> The only client to point and laugh at is systemd-timesyncd.
I think it's fair to point out that systemd-timesyncd only promises
Simple NTP (SNTP). How good a job it does of that is another matter
but at least it explains some of the "quirks" you mention
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng said on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:04:56 +0900
>If your computer's clock is way out of sync, i.e. more than five
>minutes if memory serves me right, ntp will refuse to sync the clock
>on the assumption that that time difference is on purpose. You can
>easily, and at your own
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
Hi Simon,
Simon Walter writes:
> Anyway, I tend to be sympathetic to people like Olaf "A (remote)
> command-line suits just fine." It's when you need to delegate
> administration of users and permissions to someone who does not know the
> CLI. Then you wish for a decent GUI.
I'd cluebat those
