[Dxspider-support] Keeping an accurate system clock

[Dirk Koopman]

A better solution (which is even more accurate) either to run 'ntpdate'
or better still a copy of (x)ntpd. AFAIK all linux distributions have a
copy of (x)ntpd available of the disc.

If you have more than one computer then you syncronise that computer to
network time using your ISP's (and/or other nearby public) NTP servers
(see docs for details). Then syncronise your other computers to that.

There are also free clients for windows boxes so you can syncronise
their clocks as well.

Dirk G1TLH

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 00:53, John Spigel wrote:
> I've noticed wide variation is dx spot times.  You can lock
> your cluster system clock to the National Institute of
> Standards and Technology (NIST) clock. It uses Coordinated
> Universal Time from the national time scale UTC(NIST) as its
> time reference. Do this by running from root:
> "rdate -s time.nist.gov".
> You can add this to your spider crontab to run daily if you
> like. Specific information is available from:
> http://www.bgw.org/tutorials/operating_systems/linux/set_clock.php3
> 
> 73, John W1AN
> 
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