Re: [SLE] ntp time server

From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:34:48 -0400

    On Saturday 31 July 2004 09:31 am, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
    > Living in a country where time is not (always) important I still
    > sometimes want to know the exact time I live in.
    > I have worked on the ntp.conf and have put three timeserver in the
    > config file. After using ntptimeset I now know that my time is off by
    > 1807.1719510 seconds. Nice to know but now what?
    > I have read through the ntp document until I did not understood
    > anything more and still do not know how to adjust my time
    > automagically.
    > Could somebody assist me?

    You might try deleting /etc/adjtime if it is there. When you have ntp make
    big adjustments to your clock, it sets up that file as a 'drift' file and
    when it has a large time value in it, things go awry...

    Just delete the file. 

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         07/31/04 10:33  +
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