time synch

[mike h]

I use:

00 4 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s time.u.washington.edu

That's on RedHat 6.  I didn't see a "-u" option.  Maybe that's another
build or something...

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Michael Hornung		foobar at u.washington.edu

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Terence Tak-Shing Tam wrote:

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|On my RH6.0 box, I give the command (as root)
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|rdate -u time.u.washington.edu
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|And I'm gonna write a crontab entry to do it automatically every so often.
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|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.
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|-=- Terence
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|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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