Re: System Time Growing Off

Nigel Metheringham (Nigel.Metheringham@ThePLAnet.net)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:57:01 +0000

davids@webmaster.com said:
} I strongly recommend against this practice. If your clock is
} gaining time, this will result in a jump backwards in time every 2
} hours or so. That can result in time stamps indicating events that
} occured in the wrong order, make operations failing, and other
} serirous problems.

So do it properly.

Look at using NTP to sync your clock permanently. Unless you have a
terminally broken clock (and some systems are beyond fixing), this will
permanently sync your clock including adding an overall adjustment to the
system tick period.

Info on NTP is available at
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/

Nigel.

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