[Tfug] PC Clock

[Matthew Eskes]

You don't need a cronjob to run ntp... its got a deamon.

-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Harry McGregor
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:00 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: RE: [Tfug] PC Clock

Hi,

What distro are you using?

The program you want is ntpdate (and a cron job to run it
nightly/weekly, depending on drift).


			Harry

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:41 -0700, roger wrote:
> I just joined TFUG because I have two Linux machines running MythTV and 
> know 0 about Linux. I currently have a concern about the system clock.
> I've had a 10 minute drift forward in the past two months. Since I'm 
> recording TV programs using the MythTV app, timing is critical. 
> 
> Anyone know of a utility that synch's the time to the atomic clock, 
> similar to several Win apps?
> 
> Roger Wickstrom
> Media Watch
> 425 S. Plumer Ave., Ste. 103
> Tucson, AZ 85719-6359
> 520.628.7250
> Roger at MediaWatchTucson.com
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Paul
> Scott
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] PC Clock
> 
> Jim Secan wrote:
> 
> >
> >This is what my concern was - is this the hardware clock or some other
> >problem.  I should have said that I mostly run WinXP on this beast, with
a
> >dual-boot into FC3 every now and again (perhaps once or twice a week).  I
> >don't need hyper-accurate time, +/- a couple of minutes is fine and the
> >once-per-6h goose from ntp keeps it in line (jitter's not an issue).  I'm
> >more worried about what other problems this particular behavior is a
> >symptom of that could bite me.
> >
> >I don't know if XP runs the clock in software entirely after boot or if
it
> >gets updates from the hardware periodically.  If it's the former,
something
> >is amiss in whatever is clocking the software time-keeping, and that
> >bothers me a little.  I'm hoping it's the latter, for which a simple
> >battery replacement might do the trick.
> >  
> >
> Since either software or hardware is capable of some drift even if small 
> why not run something like ntpdate anyway?
> 
> Paul Scott
> 
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