Keeping time synchronized

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Apr 1 06:50:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:21 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Is there a good ["Fedora"] way to keep time synchronized on a laptop?
> 
> I've checked around and ntpd seems to be a bad idea because it counts
> CPU cycles - but modern CPUs switch frequencies all the time to save
> power. Some tutorials say this causes NTP to not work properly. 

I'm using ntpd on a laptop, with a CPU that changes frequencies as
required, and I can't say that I've noticed any time keeping problems.

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