Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:22:10AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > Anybody able to translate and/or respond to this? It just landed in my inbox: > > Abwesenheitsnotiz: autosetting time > From: "Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > &g

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
Anybody able to translate and/or respond to this? It just landed in my inbox: Abwesenheitsnotiz: autosetting time From: "Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause.  Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-11 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Friday 08 December 2000 20:07, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Guthrie writes: > > It [chrony] is not the most accurate, nor is it probably the best package > > under most circumstances,... > > What do you think is wrong with it? Nothing _wrong_ per-se. Just not the most accurate time daemon, most

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:15:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Eric G. Miller writes: > > Been using it for a year and a half and every time I check against navy > > time clock, the difference in seconds is attributable to download time > > (okay, not quite "scientific") -- usually less than 10. >

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Eric G. Miller writes: > Been using it for a year and a half and every time I check against navy > time clock, the difference in seconds is attributable to download time > (okay, not quite "scientific") -- usually less than 10. The difference should be milliseconds at most. Transmission time is s

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:07:44PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Guthrie writes: > > It [chrony] is not the most accurate, nor is it probably the best package > > under most circumstances,... > > What do you think is wrong with it? Yea, I'm curious too. 'Been using it for a year and a half a

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread John Hasler
Robert Guthrie writes: > It [chrony] is not the most accurate, nor is it probably the best package > under most circumstances,... What do you think is wrong with it? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Lazar Fleysher
I have a similar situaltion with my p75. It sets date to somethere in 2094... cool ah? what I do is boot to DOS, set correct date and use loadlin to load linux. If I boot directly to linux and correct the date, time will decrease and as I found out not all programs like that. (you mount a partiti

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Guthrie
I actually use chrony, which is a good-enough solution for my wierd setup: One machine (a tyan motherboard with a cyrix p150+) has a non-y2k compliant bios, which sets the date to 198x every time it's rebooted. I'm not connected to the internet fulltime, so I have cronyd running on a 486 (which

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Sebastiaan
Thanks, that is a simple solution. Greetz, Sebastiaan On 8 Dec 2000, Andre Berger wrote: > Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a > > timeserver and autoset this on your machine. > > I discovered that the t

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Andre Berger
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a > timeserver and autoset this on your machine. > I discovered that the time on my machice is very inaccurate (could > difference to 10 minutes per month), so I would like to know

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Friday 08 December 2000 11:45 schrieb Sebastiaan: > Hello, > > I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a > timeserver and autoset this on your machine. > I discovered that the time on my machice is very inaccurate (could > difference to 10 minutes per month), so I would li

Re: autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:45:25 +0100 (CET) Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a > timeserver and autoset this on your machine. > I discovered that the time on my machice is very inaccurate (could > difference to 10 minutes per month

autosetting time

2000-12-08 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, I have heard once that it is possible to get current time from a timeserver and autoset this on your machine. I discovered that the time on my machice is very inaccurate (could difference to 10 minutes per month), so I would like to know how I can do an automated timeupdate. Thanks, Sebas