Re: ntpdate issue ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 04/04/15 18:42, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 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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Hmmmmm .... A *quite* interesting suggestion. Some buddies of mine call 
my time MST, for Mahaffey Std. Time. Unfortunately I don't know quite 
how to do that :-/ .... Also, would that require changes on all other 
boxen as well ? I do need ntpd or timed because I do some light 
developement w/ code resident on 1 box & compiled under make on others, 
so I *do* need some sort of time synchronization .... However, I *do* 
like that idea, any clues for me :-) ? Thanks & TIA ....

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