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Date:      Sun, 25 May 1997 21:42:43 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To:        ron@cts.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: keeping the date current...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970525213953.1066A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970524122620.ron@cts.com>

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I couldn't find it in ports or at NIST. If you wouldn't mind, could you
put the source up for ftp?

Thanks.

-- Jay

On Sat, 24 May 1997 ron@cts.com wrote:

->I use a "brute force" method. I have a root crontab executed program, "settime".
->It calls a National Bureau of Standards telephone number in (I think) Fort
->Collins, CO every three days or so, after mid-night. The NBS server sends
->bytes to settime and measures the echo delay. Based on the delay, it sends
->an adjusted time and settime sets the FreeBSD clock. Accuracy in the 10
->millisecond range. Check the "ports" distribution for "settime". If you can't
->find it, let me know and I'll hunt down and send the source to you.
->
->BTW, the call costs me $0.17 from San Diego, CA
->
->Ron
->
->
->On 23-May-97 Joseph Stein wrote:
->>>I have a cron job setup to poll several timeservers with ntpdate to keep
->>the clock on my machine somewhat current.
->>
->>However, everytime the clock is sync'd, it is adjusted by -4.xxx seconds..
->>
->>Is there a way to tune the clock a little better?
->>
->>If so, how,
->>
->>and if the answer is xntpd, how to set it up without the authentication???
->>
->>Thanks in advance for your help,
->>
->>joe
->
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->Date: 05/24/97
->Time: 12:13:26
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