> Hmmm.  5 minutes every quarter hour sounds pretty excessive.

yeah I thought so too.

> My Mac IIci used to lose several minutes per hour, especially when it
> was busy (like, compiling a new kernel or userland).
> 
> Why are you averse to running ntpd?  I've got it running on the Mac IIci
> and it works just fine.

I guess I was just figuring if I could get by with running something
hourly as opposed to having another daemon running all the time. But I am
new to this, so I'll give ntpd a try.

thanks,

--glen

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> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, glenbo wrote:
> 
> > I understand the problems old macs have with losing time as described in
> > the FAQ, I just didn't think it would be this bad. I have a quadra 840av.
> > I set up a cron to run hourly with ntpdate:
> >      0 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s tick.usno.navy.mil tock.usno.navy.mil
> > 
> > I still noticed that my time was way off the closer I reached the top of
> > the hour. I upped the cron time to run every 15 minutes. Watching the
> > syslog it appears I lose more than 5 minutes per quarter hour. Is that
> > normal? Does it depend on system load?
> > 
> > I didn't really want to run ntpd, but would I be better off doing that? I
> > don't want to ntpdate every minute, but I would like to have decently
> > accurate time. I'm curious what other people do to maintain accurate time.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > --glen
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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