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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Lost an hour?
Date: 6 May 1993 00:19:13 -0400
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In article <1993May5.204413.9874@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu
(Garrett Wollman) writes:
>
> Interesting... My machine is still right on time...  Of course, it's
> been up almost six days now, and operates as stratum 2/3 NTP server
> for most of our network (four Sun-4s and an SGI 4D/480 at the moment,
> plus all their broadcast clients).

Ditto here.  I run xntp 3.1, and I naturally haven't noticed any
problems.  B-)

Well, that's not really true.  I noticed that ntpdate adjusts the clock
by an hour every time the machine boots.  It didn't do this until a few
days ago.

--
(For the critics:  I reboot my machine to test new kernel changes or to
restart basic daemons, not because it crashes.)
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