Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 06:25:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Subject: Re: Setting time from bios Message-ID: <XFMail.980329062715.dhh@androcles.com> In-Reply-To: <199803281601.JAA03060@mt.sri.com>
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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
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