system clock is too slow

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 09:09, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 6:45 pm, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> > ;/etc/init.d/ntpd start
> 
> I've been using ntp for a while..but I've been using ntpdate. I have it on 
> root's crontab and it runs like 6 times a day. My question is: what's the 
> difference..or is there any advantage running a full-time daemon(ntpd) vs the 
> ntpdate command?

I believe ntpdate "jumps" the time to bring it into line, whilst ntpd
"slews" the time. This can be important for things like cron, so
discrete times do not get skipped over when ntpdate runs.

Cheers, Ben