Re: ntpdate issue ....

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> I like my LAN boxen to reflect time slightly fast, i.e. slightly ahead of 
> local time (just like I have all my clocks set), so I munge around w/ ntpdate 
> & adjtime to effect that. I do in fact run ntpd, as a server for the rest of 
> the LAN, serving up my locally adjusted (slightly fast) time. I have been 
> doing this w/ the incumbent LAN-time server for several years now w/ no 
> issues, although that box has gotten a bit unreliable lately, hence my 
> interest in moving to a newer box for LAN-time service.

Why not just create a custom time-zone with the unusual offset?  Then 
you wouldn't need any local ntp servers at all.

:)




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