Re: [NTLK] Net time

From: Morgan Aldridge (makkintosshu_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 15:22:57 PST

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Has never worked for me either. I'm using time.apple.com on all my
workstations and tried that on my MP 2100 over WiFi.

Guess it's time to get Ethereal installed on one of my machines and
see what the chatter actually looks like.

Morgan Aldridge

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On Jan 8, 2006, at 4:20 PM, hellsop_at_ninehells.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:19:25PM -0500, Michael Blazer wrote:
>> I think that parameter means "don't bother resetting Newton clock  
>> unless
>> it's out by more than this".  In other words, it controls whether the
>> sync happens, not how accurate the sync is.  But I'm not sure.   
>> Anyway,
>> I did the same experiment and it didn't work either way.
>
> Right. You don't want the Newt to reset itself to follow a
> temporarily-insane timeserver. The Newt's clock is good enough that  
> more
> than about a two-minute difference should probably be verified  
> manually.
>
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