From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 10:20:33 2000 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 A33BE37B61E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA11286; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:20:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:20:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clocks! Message-ID: <20000622122017.A10676@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00f701bfdc6d$dbd55340$4100000a@doot> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: <00f701bfdc6d$dbd55340$4100000a@doot>; from "Mitch Vincent" on Thu Jun 22 13:18:18 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 22), Mitch Vincent said: > How are most of you keeping your clocks accurate? I'm noticing that > on some of the machines here we are as much as 16 minutes off actual > time.. What's the best (and most secure) way to keep a clock in sync > with the rest of the world? ntpd, without a doubt. If you're paranoid or absolutely need the best time, buy a GPS unit and synch your clock directly to it. If you're less paranoid, synch to your ISP's ntp server (most have one). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message