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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: syncronizing clocks on workstations
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.002951.2220@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Date: 1 Jun 91 00:29:51 GMT
References: <1991May21.175317.12255@Citicorp.COM> <1991May23.014145.212@wizard.uucp> <845@tiamat.fsc.com>
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>In article <1991May23.014145.212@wizard.uucp>, bob@wizard.uucp (Bob Smith) writes:
>- rdate will read the date/time from a specfied host and set the date/time
>- of the local machine accordingly, I've never tried it, but it should be
>- possible to cron up rdate periodically to keep clocks sync'd.(?)
>

I'm using rdate on Sun/386i systems, syncing the time to a Harris
sysvr3 system which is kept in sync to a WWV receiver.  The Sun 
systems seem to drift very rapidly, being at least a second off 
within 12 hours or so of the sync.  The same is true of another
Harris machine which uses also uses rdate to sync to the Harris
with the WWV.     These systems are running rdate periodcally from
cron (once per day).



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