[X4U] Adusting time

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At 19:26 -0400 23/4/11, T.L. Miller wrote:
>On 4/23/11, at 4:17 PM, cat soul catsoul at thinkplan.org said:
>
>>compared to that, this mac is 1 second behind. dunno if that's a
>>problem or not, but I can't see why any of these computers should be
>>off at all, if they're hooking up to the mothership to get a time
>>sync....
>
>I though my Mac was maybe a second slow when I first compared, but after
>watching a while it seemed closer. Certainly better than the 30 seconds
>w/ the Linux machines. The official time say it is w/in 1/10th of a
>second of being right.

If you really need to check mismatch against a Linux box, make sure 
the Linux box is set to supply time and use 'ntpdate -q 
IP-of-Linux-box' in Terminal.

David


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