time synch

[Terence Tak-Shing Tam]

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On my RH6.0 box, I give the command (as root)

rdate -u time.u.washington.edu

And I'm gonna write a crontab entry to do it automatically every so often.

I am going to guess that time.u talks to an atomic time clock somewhere -
that's how most times are kept.  On Windoze platform, there's a shareware
applett called atomtime that does just that.

-=- Terence

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Mike, did you mention something about synching with UW time a few days
> ago?  I wasn't really following that all the way, how is that done, and
> where do you point for such a thing (I'm gonna guess time.u).  Is it some
> sort of official campus time?  I see clocks all over the place on campus
> that are never synched, it would be nice if they _all_ worked the right
> way....
> 
> Anyone else know details on that one?  
> 
> Later,
>  David
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