Linux clock-setting script

[William Park]

Chris Gonnerman <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote:
>> I've seen it, but it's a tarball which you have to download and compile.
> 
> This is a problem?

Not really, but there are 2 other utilities in installation CD.

> 
>> 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.

I think all does "skewing" if time difference is small enough (I think
0.5s).

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