[H-GEN] Adjusting clocks

[Mark Suter]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Michael Anthon wrote:

> I have been synching my server from the CSIRO time server and am getting an
> error of -11 seconds per day.  This is causing a problem in that my daily
> cron jobs get run twice, since 4:00 am happens twice a day now !!

[ snip ntpdate -B ]

> Is this what I should use?  The comment about it taking a long time kinda
> concerns me a bit.

Probably not.  I suggest that you use something like xntpd so the
slew is corrected in a slow and gradual manner.

    http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

Yours sincerely,

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