Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 23:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and >> in the dark to geet their before 9 o'cloc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:24:53 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > But what would make more sense (at least in my mind) would be to have > official 'working hours' changes, and adjust those, rather than change > the clocks - ie, in your example, instead of school starting at 9:00am, > it switches to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:15:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You are in Australia. The sun happens to shine in Australia. It shines a > lot there. > I am in South Africa. The sun happens to shine a lot in South Africa. It > shines a lot here. > > Neil is in England. The sun never shines in England.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 18:24, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-04-26 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and >> in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-26 5:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have helped. But what would make more sens

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 00:11, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: >>> Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon >>> : Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-) I notice that no-one has yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 05:44, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Get over it and enjoy the extra hour in the evening. But then again I'm > in Australia where [snip here] OK, stop right there. I see where the disconnect comes in. You are in Australia. The sun happens to shine in Australia. It shines a lot there. I am i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2013 03:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 23:28, Nick Khamis wrote: > On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 26/04/2013 19:11, Nick Khamis wrote: >>> Thank you so much for your response, and I totally understand the >>> effort vs. benefit challenge. However, is it really that much >>> trouble/unstable to setup ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:20:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about > > 11, the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of > > the reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to > > school in the d

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 04/27/13 09:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On 27/04/13 09:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here >>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here > > either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow > > and in the dark to geet their bef

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: >> Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon >> : >>> Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-) >>> >>> I notice that no-one has yet mentioned that Windows does not do ntp, as >>> Windo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here > either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow and > in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would have > helped. No it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/04/2013 19:11, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Thank you so much for your response, and I totally understand the >> effort vs. benefit challenge. However, is it really that much >> trouble/unstable to setup our own ntp >> server that syncs with ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 23:02, the guard wrote: >> I was thinking more along the lines of how Windows has no concept of UTC >> set in the hw clock and a local timezone, and how timezones are odd >> things like Harare/Pretoria instead of the official names like >> SAST GMT+2 as set by the scientific timekeep

[gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread the guard
Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:54 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon : > On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: > > > > > > > > Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon > > : > >> On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: > > > > Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon > : >> On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate n

[gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread the guard
Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon : > On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, > >> > >> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp > >> server, and was wondering which of the ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp >> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are >> considered viable. I did see the >> http://en.gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 20:36, Stroller wrote: > > On 26 April 2013, at 16:41, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> ... >> So here's what you do: sync everything to your ISP's time servers. >> Chances are good they do a better job than you can, just like with DNS >> caching. > > > I'm not sure if my ISP offers time se

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 19:11, Nick Khamis wrote: >>> >> Thank you so much for your response, and I totally understand the >>> >> effort vs. benefit challenge. However, is it really that much >>> >> trouble/unstable to setup our own ntp >>> >> server that syncs with our local isp, and have our internal netwo

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp > server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are > considered viable. I did see the > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. > Our service

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 April 2013, at 16:41, Alan McKinnon wrote: > ... > So here's what you do: sync everything to your ISP's time servers. > Chances are good they do a better job than you can, just like with DNS > caching. I'm not sure if my ISP offers time servers, but Apple and MS both run time servers whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/04/2013 17:54, Nick Khamis wrote: >> On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which would be most reliable in a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 17:54, Nick Khamis wrote: > On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which >>> would >>> be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which >> would >> be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What we >> would like >> is to set up our own ntp se

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which would > be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What we would > like > is to set up our own ntp server which other servers and desktops in ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/26/13, Jarry wrote: > On 26-Apr-13 16:10, Joseph wrote: >> On 04/25/13 10:33, Nick Khamis wrote: >>> >>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp >>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are >>> considered viable. I did see the >>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Jarry
On 26-Apr-13 16:10, Joseph wrote: On 04/25/13 10:33, Nick Khamis wrote: We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are q

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Joseph
On 04/25/13 10:33, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are quite time sensitive

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 26/04/13 07:57, staticsafe wrote: > On 4/25/2013 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: >>> Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both >>> windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests >>> that are resumed, o

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread staticsafe
On 4/25/2013 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: >> Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both >> windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests >> that are resumed, or the whole virtualisation system is hibern

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: > Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both > windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests > that are resumed, or the whole virtualisation system is hibernated? (ntp > refuses to resync after guest pau

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Dale
Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Thursday 25 April 2013 08:09 PM, Dale wrote: >> Nick Khamis wrote: >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp >>> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are >>> considered viable. I did see the >>> http://en

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/04/13 23:07, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. >> > > Yeah... I concur ;) > Define critical! - to my mind if its critical you should be running your own atomic clock, and something like a pps system to distribute it ... or somewhere in the middle a

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Thursday 25 April 2013 08:09 PM, Dale wrote: Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/25/2013 11:02 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-04-25 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: >> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp >> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are >> considered viable. I did see the >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronizat

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/25/2013 10:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-04-25 10:40 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> For contrast, having all nodes sync to pool.ntp.org results in time >> variance of up to 2-3 minutes across a dozen or so machines. > > That makes no sense... > > Not calling you a liar or anything, but it j

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
> Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. > Yeah... I concur ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
On 4/25/13, Michael Mol wrote: > On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp >> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are >> considered viable. I did see the >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-25 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Are these virtualized? It makes a difference,

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-25 10:40 AM, Michael Mol wrote: For contrast, having all nodes sync to pool.ntp.org results in time variance of up to 2-3 minutes across a dozen or so machines. That makes no sense... Not calling you a liar or anything, but it just doesn't make sense. I can see that it might take

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/25/2013 10:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp > server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are > considered viable. I did see the > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. > Our services are qui

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Dale
Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp > server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are > considered viable. I did see the > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. > Our services are quite time sensitive. > > Th

[gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. Our services are quite time sensitive. Thanks in Advance, N.