Re: Setting linux time from a time server

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From: Jeremy Laidman
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:00

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Martin Hofmann wrote:

> You can also use the program netdate to get and set the time from
> time servers.  If you are directly connected to a network you include
> a line in the crontab file to set the date every night.

Note that there was a problem with netdate in that if the time server was 
down or incorrectly specified, the system date would be set some time 
into next century.  I have patched netdate to work sanely in these 
situations.

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