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Re: method to sync time?
- To: Mike Wahle <mwahle@luminate.com>
- Subject: Re: method to sync time?
- From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:16:00 +0100
- Cc: David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>, misc@openbsd.org
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:06:34AM -0700, Mike Wahle wrote:
> "rdate" should work as well. Although I have no idea
> the advantages of ntpdate vs rdate ... Anyone have
> insight on that ?
>
rdate is brutal and will make sudden switches of time, even
backwards. Obviously things which take notice of timestamps
don't always like this. ntpdate makes gradual changes towards
synchronisation and has all sorts of safeguards builtin.