Linux clock-setting script

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Park" <opengeometry at rc.scd.yahoo.com>


> Chris Gonnerman <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote:
> > I use chrony for time maintenance.  If your computer has intermittent
> > Internet access (i.e. dialup) it is hands-down the best way to do it
> > IMHO.
> > 
> > If this package has already been mentioned, sorry... I haven't followed
> > this thread closely.
> > 
> >    http://chrony.sunsite.dk/
> > 
> > Off-topic since it's C, but I love it.
> 
> I've seen it, but it's a tarball which you have to download and compile.

This is a problem?

> Whereas, 'netdate', 'ntpdate', and 'telnet 13' are ready to run on all
> Linux distribution.  I have DSL connection, so I run it once a day in
> Crontab.  If you dialup, then you can run it from '/etc/ppp/ip-up'.

True.  chrony doesn't update the time by "lurches" though, but by "skew,"
which is better in most cases.

To each his own.

Chris Gonnerman -- chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
http://newcenturycomputers.net