From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 16:58:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8630E37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta09.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6115D43E4A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20020815235354.KXYS20443.mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:53:54 +1000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020816094820.03de6980@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:53:16 +1000 To: Kirk Strauser From: Rob B Subject: Re: Setting the Time || Public Time Servers Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <878z38kx8t.fsf@pooh.int> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:33 15/08/2002 -0500, Kirk Strauser sent this up the stick: >At 2002-08-14T23:37:14Z, Doug Silver writes: > > > Also take a look at clockspeed (/usr/ports/sysutils) to obviate the need > > for running ntpd or ntpdate consistently. > > >Given that the software requires system modifications to run properly, and >that it essentially emulates NTP in a non-NTP-compatible manner, does it >actually have any advantages worth knowing about? It seems to calculate drift rates better than ntpd, and also correct for leap seconds - which is onl;y good if the machine is only intermittently connected to the 'net Cheers, Rob -- It's not that they die, but that they die like sheep. This is random quote 718 of a collection of 1254 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message