[Box-Admins] NTP?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 14:17:28 UTC 2013


On 2 January 2013 13:58, Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure what that is, so probably no.
> If you could tell me what it is, I'll find it and install it.

Ah, right. The Network Time Protocol keeps your machine in sync with
UTC, by asking other machines (connected to GPS or atomic clocks) and
doing clever things.

On a Debian-like machine it should be as easy as "sudo apt-get install
ntp" to install.

frank

> Chris
>
> Sent from my ImStillInBedPad
>
> On 2013-01-02, at 8:21 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does squeakci.org have NTP installed? If so, I don't think it's working:
>>
>> http://squeakci.org/computer/
>>
>> shows my machine (which is synched to a stratum 1 machine connected to
>> GPS) 4m 38s ahead.
>>
>> frank


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