[X4U] Adusting time

[Eugene]

Cheryl, don't use the nist.gov machines.  They are Stratum 1 clock
sources; they get their times from atomic clocks and such (which are
considered Stratum 0 clock sources), and serves timing requests to
Stratum 2 clock sources.  Finally, Stratum 3 clock sources get their
times from Stratum 2 clock sources, and serves timing requests to the
general public (i.e. you and me).  NTP keeps clock information accurate
to within 10 ms.  If your clocks are off by 30 seconds, something is
broke and wrong.

I agree with Tommy; set all machines to sync to the same time servers.


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:33:46AM CDT, Tommy Bollman <tommyb06 at student.uia.no> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> What if you use the apple timeserver on your linux machines, I think
> that would be the easiest for you to do.
> 
> hth 
>
> 
> Den 24. apr. 2011 kl. 00.24 skrev Cheryl Homiak:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I'm running the latest update of Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac Mini
> > bought at the beginning of 2008. The clock is supposedly being
> > synchronized with an Apple timeserver acording to date and time in
> > System Preferences. However, it is at least 30 seconds off from my
> > two linux machines which are being set once an hour with the
> > nist.gov servers. This is really bothering me because I have chimes
> > and announcements set to go off at different times and the other
> > computers are done or almost done by the time my Mac starts. I'm
> > sure the linux machines are more accurate because they are also in
> > sync with my atomic clock. Is there something I can do to manually
> > set this clock to the right time, even if I have to keep doing it
> > periodically?Whatever is being done automatically doesn't seem to be
> > working.

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