uct VS. local time in slackware

[Toby Fisher]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Erik Heil wrote:

> Hi, Scott.
> You can either set the clock in the BIOS manually, or sync the time
> automatically at boot-time via xnptd.  This can either be done from a script
> in /etc/init.d or you can even run it at regular intervals as a kron job.

Yes, I used to do this for a machine that had a very inaccurate system
clock, I used the clock command in I think it was Slackware 3.3 or
something to set the hardware clock from the system clock at intervals,
and the system clock was updated from a time server everytime I dialed up
to the net.

Cheers.

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