Peter is now offical timekeeper was Re: [Wolves] my five mins of fame

[James Turner]

On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 11:22 pm, Peter Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Aquarius wrote:
> > Peter Oliver spoo'd forth:
> > >> Peter is now offical timekeeper of the LUG ;-)
> > >
> > > Oh, in that case, Aq's clock is wrong too.
> >
> > Not now it isn't. When my machine is encoding video it loses time,
>
> Huh?
>
> > so I have to poke ntpdate to go and update itself. I suppose I ought to
> > cron that,
>
> Gah, no!  Like I said, ntpd.

Here here! Unlike ntpdate, ntpd should gradually adjust the date so as to keep 
it synchronised, rather than potentially causing big jumps forward or 
backward. Time should always run forward with ntpd, and Aq's "screensaver" 
problem shouldn't happen.

(note: I should really take Peter's/my own advice and get it working on my 
systems!)

James