Hi Fred, your hardware clock may be off -> man hwclock. You can sysc it to your system time with 'hwclock -w'. hwclock requires root powers.
Am 09.08.2018 um 16:19 schrieb Fred: > Hi, > > Someone complained off list about the timestamp in my emails being off. > Being a hardware person I think hardware should work properly and clocks > should keep accurate time. So I installed ntpdate as suggested but it is not > active yet. > > If I ask google what time it is in Mesa AZ. the response agrees closely with > an "atomic" clock I have. The computer clock is about 10 min. fast. > > fred@ragnok:~$ /usr/sbin/ntpdate -q time.nist.gov > server 2610:20:6f96:96::4, stratum 1, offset -610.512368, delay 0.09421 > server 132.163.96.4, stratum 1, offset -610.509394, delay 0.08899 > 9 Aug 06:51:15 ntpdate[13672]: step time server 132.163.96.4 > offset -610.509394 sec > > fred@ragnok:~$ date > Thu Aug 9 06:51:18 MST 2018 > > The time server is quite close to the computer clock. What causes the > discrepancy? The offset in the time server response is about 10 min. The > offset is measured from what to what and how is it measured? > > Best regards, > Fred > >
