[Gllug] Fedora/Dell Clock Problems

Dr David Reed david at aliada.plus.com
Fri Mar 30 14:39:25 UTC 2007


Peter Childs wrote:
> Are you running ntp?
>
> If not you probably ought to be.
>
> Motherboard clocks are never reliable and at least if you are running
> ntp and your battery's flat, the computer asks the network whats the
> time when it boots and keeps it in sync with everyone else.
>
> Even Windows runs NTP now!
>
> Peter.
Of the reference sites that NTP uses, is one more reliably open than the 
others? I have tried several but I never seem to able to find one that 
responds to the daemon. It always seems to time out, as it were.

David Reed
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