From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 9: 4:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4632415478 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:04:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA51175; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:03:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:03:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysterious xntpd Message-ID: <19991111110338.B48598@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19991110174318.A35097@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:18:54PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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