> > Unix time seems to drift.
> > I don't want NTP but a nice adjustment of some kind to let it approximate
> > reality would be nice.
> 
> I'm running NetBSD 1.0 and similarly didn't want to try to integrate
> the NTP stuff into the kernel.  Instead, cron runs ntpdate periodically 
> (ntpdate is a utility that comes with NTP, but doesn't require the 
> kernel support).  Ntpdate fetches the time from an NTP server.  Works OK.
> I have to run it every 5 seconds to keep the time within +/- 500ms
> of "real time" due to crummy PC clocks; but there's no noticable 
> overhead.  (If you keep the time drift within +/- 500ms then the
> "real time clock" will slew rather than jumping when corrected.

I run ntpdate every 5 minutes on one machine and run timed to synchronize
other machines on the same LAN.  This is enough to keep drift within +/- 50ms
for my PCs.

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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