[Gllug] whoah

[Xander D Harkness]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Alain Williams wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:39:19AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:57:27AM +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:18:56AM -0000, will wrote:
> > > > Yeah sorry, my home PC is dual booted and I haven't worked out if this is
> > > > caused by Linux, windows or hardware, but I have my suspicions :-)
> > > > basically, occaisionally the clock slips out a month or two.  Hmmm.
> > > 
> > > ntp clients on both OS's may help...
> > 
> > I do not think so, as NTP does not set timezone, only time.  If your
> > PC is set in the wrong time zone, then ntp will not fix this.
> > 
> > However if it is in the correct timezone and just wrongly set, then
> > it will.
> 
> Big caveat: if the time is wrong by > 20 minutes it assumes that something is
> horribly wrong and so doesn't do anything. So get it about right by hand and use
> ntpd to keep it right.

I know this reply is a little late, (I missed a large chunk of mail and am
catching up :-)

Chrony http://www.chrony.org will make adjustments irrespective and can be
set to mail you above a certain threshold. 

Cheers
Xander 


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