Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread john
Carl Fink writes: > Does anyone know a program that will get a time from some source on the > net and set the system clock based on EST? I could add it to my ip-up > script and the computer would never fall far behind. You might try the chrony package from unstable. It does pretty much what xntp

Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Utility to set PC clock Date: Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 05:31:53PM +1030 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Does anyone know a program that will get a time from some source on > > the net and set the system

Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread Will Lowe
> (Greenwich Meantime or however you spell it) on your system clock. > Then you can set the timezone in software so that time shows up > properly. Yes, this is generally considered teh "right" way to run a *nix box. > Secondly, I think there is some way of getting your machine to automatically >

Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread Mark Phillips
> Does anyone know a program that will get a time from some source on > the net and set the system clock based on EST? I could add it to my > ip-up script and the computer would never fall far behind. Firstly, I would recommend that you use universal coordinated time (Greenwich Meantime or howeve

Re: Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread David Coe
I use, and recommend, the xntp3 package. (The x has nothing to do with X windows). It may be overkill for your specific problem, but it works nicely and is well documented. "The Network Time Protocol allows for the synchronization of clocks on networked computers. The xntpd daemon implements NT