On 2005/11/18 17:53:45, J Moore wrote: > No, Greg - I'm not trying to be obnoxious for obnoxious' sake - are you? > What part of the definition of the word "by" to you not understand? > > Have you looked the word up in a dictionary? Have you imagined yourself > in a situation where you were standing in front of a clock, and someone > said to you, "adjust that clock by 30 minutes, Greg."
'adjusting' is a good choice, since a search on list archives using that as a keyword will find plenty of explanation... ntpd(8) *may* benefit from a few explanatory words, although that's debatable, since adjtime(2) is referenced and explains things well enough.
