"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> writes:
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.
As much as I really don't want to help you set the wrong time, another
option is to add code in ntpd to maintain custom offset. I did this in
1998 to test for Y2K bugs; timestamps from outside were increased by
2y. Either that or the local clock was reduced by 2y. It wasn't that
hard to do, and then my machine ran exactly 2 years fast, to the second.
(I am pretty sure I no longer have the code.)