Jimmy Wales wrote:
Just a thought: in the past, I have always had good
results from using
'rdate' on a chron. If you set the clock once a day, it never varies
by more than a second or two, which is very much close enough for our
purposes.
Real ntp software is amazing, but really overkill for our purposes?
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I don't think it's overkill, given NTP's ease of use. Points in
favour:
* Most Linux distributions include NTP
* It only requires one small config file to be set up and then runs
unobtrusively ever after.
* It's significantly more accurate and reliable than ad-hoc timing
solutions, and
* It's resistant to errors in the up-stream time servers, using a voting
algorithm to resist bogus time settings
* It won't step the clock backwards, which can be a pain for databases
and backups
I'd be glad to help you with the setup, if you want.
Neil