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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: Drifting clock
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.081846.11087@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1992Nov10.021255.8585@cs.brown.edu> <HARDY.92Nov9233637@golem.ps.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 08:18:46 GMT
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- In article <HARDY.92Nov9233637@golem.ps.uci.edu>
- hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
- >If your machine is on a network and you know an ntp (or xntp) host at
- >Brown, and if your machine is running ntp (check you /etc/hostconfig
- >file), ntp.drift records the drift of your clock vis-a-vis the master
- >clock. ntp is adjusting the logical time.
-
- If your machine isn't synchronized to network time (e.g. a
- standalone "home" machine), you'll need to hook it to the
- network temporarily so it can "learn" what its natural
- tendency is. (If NeXT is shipping systems with software
- preinstalled, why don't they do this as part of burn-in???
- Or does it change as the hardware ages?)
-
- -=EPS=-
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