From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 13:38:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAF737B6A0 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14Kof7-0006zv-00; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:38:06 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C9F5DB1; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:36:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id C1F6512C4C; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:15:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:15:37 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: randy // fBSD Cc: FreeBSD-Q Subject: Re: ntpdate and clock Message-ID: <20010122211537.B958@raggedclown.net> References: <20010122072105-r01010600-a1377898@192.168.100.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010122072105-r01010600-a1377898@192.168.100.2>; from freebsd@randys.org on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:21:04AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:21:04AM -0800, randy // fBSD wrote: > Thanks to those who helped with my clock situation. I am using ntpdate as a cron > to update the time every hour. Now it seems that my clock is off by at least -.014 > seconds every hour. Is this normal? Why is off so much in one hour? This is presumably why you are using ntpdate .. (or why anyone is ?) Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message