For my systems at home I use the U.S. NIST (National Institute of
Standards and Technology) servers in Gaithersburg, MD, or Boulder, CO
(where WWV is).
For general information about time you can go to http://www.time.gov and
explore. More directly, you can go to http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm
to set up Windoze and Macs. One of the links on that page points to a
list of servers. I use the first five. I use the same servers for my
Linux boxes. Ping time over local wireless, Linksys router, Bellsouth
DSL from Raleigh to Boulder is consistently 73 ms. (Can't get to
Gaithersburg at the moment.)
Reid Sayre
Eric H Christensen wrote:
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Opps... I misread the problem. :(
I have found that I get a more accurate time by using the
us.pool.ntp.org as there is usually less of a network delay.
Glad you found the solution to the immediate problem. Not sure about a
better way to do time unless you want to check your clock against WWV
once a day.
Eric
Eric H Christensen wrote:
You COULD restart your ntpd and hope that it grabs a new server. BTW,
if you edit the config file to the following:
server 0.us.pool.ntp.org
server 1.us.pool.ntp.org
server 2.us.pool.ntp.org
and that way you will select three US servers that you may have better
results from.
Eric
Jason Tower wrote:
got a dapper machine with the time too fast by 55 sec:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ntpdate -b pool.ntp.org
27 Jul 16:18:46 ntpdate[12420]: step time server 193.120.142.71 offset
\ -55.118258 sec
unfortunately that command is not fixing the time as it should, running
'date' still reports a time 55sec in the future. i tried ntpd but
doesn't work either:
Jul 27 15:55:16 murphy ntpd[11630]: time reset -55.023169 s
yet the clock is still off following the reset. note that this 55s is a
slow drift, it's only gaining a few seconds per day, but of course it
adds up.
wtf do i have to do to get the system clock set to the correct time?
jason
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