From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 29 20:18:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08429 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:45:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from androcles.com (root@androcles.com [204.57.240.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07830 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@androcles.com) Received: (from dhh@localhost) by androcles.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04419; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 06:27:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199803281601.JAA03060@mt.sri.com> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 06:25:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Duane H. Hesser" To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: Setting time from bios Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson , dennis Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Mar-98 Nate Williams wrote: >> >> Our servers run rather fast >... >> Why do I need to run "yet another deamon" on my servers when I have a >> perfectly accurate clock in the machine? > >Because you don't have a perfectly accurate clock in the machine. :) > >You can tweak with the settings to try and figure out which timer in the >system generates more accurate time. Bruce posted about this a long time >ago, so it's probably in the archives. It should be documented >somewhere (if it is, it should be documented somewhere more obvious). :) http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/pubs/hownist/howpcc.html -------------- Duane H. Hesser dhh@androcles.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message