Re: [LUG] PC clocks set at 2004

[Keith Abraham <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:

> On Saturday 15 January 2005 1:36 pm, Keith Abraham wrote:
>  
>
> > The internal clock runs slow so I occasionaly go in
> > the BIOS and manually update it.
> >
> > I guess my fingers are too big or my brain too small.
> > Probably the latter because my last clock update was
> > on the 2nd of Jan and I hadn't noticed the error.
> >
> > I haven't bothered to sync the clock to an Internet clock.
> > Perhaps I should.
> >    
>
> NTP.
>
> You can run ntpdate once a week etc. via cron for the root user. Or (with a 
> permanent connection) you can run the ntp server.
>
> # ntpdate ntp.demon.co.uk
>
>  
OK lads and lassies ntpdate via weekly cron job set so
date and time should be OK from now on.

Keith


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