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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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