[Zope] ZSyncer

[J Cameron Cooper]

>One way to help keep everything in sync is to reset the system clock
>on a regular basis.  On Linux, add the following line to your 
>root cron file:
>
>47 23 * * * rdate -s time.nist.gov; /usr/sbin/hwclock --systohc
>
>...
>  
>
>If you need to really syncronize the clocks, this won't do it. You need
>some really heavy-duty mechanism.  (See Leslie Lamport's papers on the
>topic for an explanation....)  But for Sync's purposes, it's probably OK.B
>
>I presume there is an equivalent mechanism for Windows, but I don't know
>what it is.
>  
>
ntpdate on Linux (and presumably any Unixish system) is a more accurate 
choice. It'll get you as close as you can reasonably get.

There are Windows programs that will do this too. Back when I used 
Windows I had one, but don't remember what it was called anymore. Check 
Tucows or some such place. I think MS even stuck an NTP service (or 
whatever) in one of its recent Windows. (The corresponding story is that 
they also pointed it to a third party and didn't bother to tell them. A 
good story if true.)

Not that I'm not veering off-topic or anything...

          --jcc
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