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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:03:38 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysterious xntpd
Message-ID:  <19991111110338.B48598@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111417340.47036-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:18:54PM %2B0000
References:  <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911111417340.47036-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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In the last episode (Nov 11), Jonathon McKitrick said:
> So what makes sense for keeping time on a laptop with a PP connection
> once a day?

xntpd :)  It can maintain correct time even if it can only contact its
time source for a couple hours each day.  I believe it needs about 1/2
hour of continuous connect time to synch after a disconnect.

> I tried setting it once, and ended up with GMT (Zulu Time) and it
> took me a while to get the zone right.  Now i just have a little
> script called jtime that i run whenever that calles ntpdate.  Does
> this make sense?

xntpd and ntpdate both set the time in the same way.  You must have had
some other timezone problem.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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