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From: ar@mcdd1 (Alastair Rae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Network Time Protocol
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Date: 14 Nov 90 09:21:35 GMT
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>>    OK, I get the idea of synchronising the clocks of different hosts
>>    on a network

> this is accomplished by the adjtime() system call. 

The obvious follow-up question are:

1.  How is this set up?

2.  What do you do with a network with BSD systems (which have adjtime())
    and SYSV systems (which do not appear to have adjtime())?
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