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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: problems with clock?
Date: 31 Mar 1993 17:09:40 +0200
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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Message-ID: <1pcc7k$l0n@smurf.sub.org>
References: <C4q062.4Iv@veda.is> <C4q3B4.159@kithrup.com> <1pb5mk$12lv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

In comp.os.386bsd.bugs, article <1pb5mk$12lv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
  mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
> 
> In article <C4q3B4.159@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
> writes:
> }
> } I'm talking about doing something like:
> }	  ntp -s <somereliablesite>
> } and then, later, doing
> }	  ntp <thatsamesite>
> }
> Huh?  This sounds like a bug in your implementation of `ntp'.  I use
> `xntp' version 3, which you can get from:
> 
Assuming that an "ntp", immediately following the "ntp -s", shows
no such discrepancy, and also assuming that nothing else changes
the clock (like timed, ntpd, ...), a bug in ntp is _very_ unlikely
to be the reason for this problem.

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