Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:01:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Dave Runkle <drunkle@home.com>, Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Best Time Synch Utility Message-ID: <20000406130125.A19508@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000406102647.1032B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Thu Apr 6 10:28:03 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004060930370.40807-100000@xb.fiddi.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000406102647.1032B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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In the last episode (Apr 06), Zhihui Zhang said: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Dave Runkle wrote: > > A really simple one (and it's in the ports) is 'rdate', but size > > ain't everything. ;) The pkg is only 4k in size. It can be done via > > cron, once daily, weekly, whatever, stuck in periodic, or even > > executed from the command line, to set time on your machine or just > > to check time. > > > > # /usr/local/sbin/rdate -s time.u.washington.edu > > Can you tell me how precision this command rdate can achieve (ms or us)? > Thanks. Not even that precise :). rdate only has 1-second accuracy. There is no reason to use rdate on FreeBSD at all, since ntpdate has millisecond accuracy and comes with FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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