Subject: Re: clock slew/adjustment
To: VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/04/1996 10:30:47
VaX#n8 writes:
> Unix time seems to drift.

You mean, your clock drifts. No crystal is perfect.

> I don't want NTP but a nice adjustment of some kind to let it approximate
> reality would be nice.
> 
> options?

NTP, and calling up NIST every day and readjusting by hand. (Actually,
you could also rdate a known accurate host every once in a while, but
why not just run NTP? If you are on the net, its fire and forget...)

Perry