Please set you time!!

Björn Persson bjorn_persson at sverige.nu
Mon Mar 22 15:05:51 UTC 2004


WipeOut wrote:

> Firstly find the closest open time server to you..
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html

Or ask your ISP if they have NTP servers.

> Test it by running "rdate -p time.server.name"in a terminal window.. You 
> should get it printing out the current time on the screen, anything else 
> means the server did not respond properly so choose another server..

Note that Rdate uses RFC 868, an older and simpler protocol. The servers 
on the list are NTP servers and need not necessarily talk the RFC 868 
protocol. "ntpdate -q -u time.server.name" can be used instead.

Björn Persson





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