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Re: Keeping your clock current, automatically.
Posted by ajt (204.193.xx.xx) on Mon 15 Aug 2005 at 09:09
On second thoughts it's not such a good idea to use ntpdate on a running system, as the time shift can be large, and it can mess up cron and logging.

Better to use ntpdate on boot and then use a proper ntp daemon such as ntp-simple to carefully and slowly keep the system time correct.

See http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Ntpdate

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