Re: Setting up NTP for the system and or hardware time

From: Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman (bsd.sanspam_at_cto.homelinux.net)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:51:22 +0530

On 10/15/04 05:17, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Quoth Ivan Filpo <caonex@caonex.mine.nu>:
>
>>I have gnome 2.0 and I am using a NTP(atomic time) server to always
>>synchronize the window manager. How can accomplish this for all the system
>>time used by all the programs in my computer so they can all go by the
>>same time.
>
>
> What on earth are you talking about?
>
> a) NTP is the Network Time Protocol. It hasn't got anything to do
> with "atomic time."
>
> b) All NTP does is to keep your computer's clock synchronized with
> whatever time servers it is pointing to.

ntpd (NTP daemon, if configured and running), not NTP

> c) This has nothing to with window managers.
>
> If you sync the computer's clock with someone else's, then this
> affects the computer's clock, which is read by any applications on
> your system that read the time. 

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