From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD161381F3 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9EB7E0D9F; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D07AE0D5E for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id s43so3947531wey.41 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:42:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9+TqqaIjdFOPMH8WUr3/aQOZf9/PzB3RvhUPy2zK6QE=; b=cmUE6BGWQAUPUXiTrXf/bpU7TwPPPdajW2PByd7yl4qlg5q6gx0eNLcm/cPJ1zfJHb GJUHj7K1DGau7+8/Fo7UbPwjgX++9tnFTBxNCYNURvess7F7OEpZI+nyZX35xG+TX0Kk TfiQeEvtu7AVwMh78vQqEhdrlIT5pcSSoisz21ni94hxJCbQ4EW+0NQ12LF7E+a9aBXJ cWlFYOaidJljt1msBUbHd77VZGjxyIaOBYnfZ0Ed2c3yWqeMm5RDYtGP5e8d6lkt15zK nZ5xqJlH16DDQ+pOmLkhnFSLwkq3yyBB8CEjNcgOciohHky2GT0jnN6LXytgnTMk9J2j eSDQ== X-Received: by 10.194.92.197 with SMTP id co5mr54628216wjb.41.1367008961302; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-203-210.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.203.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dj7sm5761625wib.6.2013.04.26.13.42.39 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <517AE68A.6010701@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:41:46 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130413 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ee8b64d6-ad5d-4e51-a474-4b6a55ef37ab X-Archives-Hash: 4d1a7d2d69cc84e9a93297f8ed2ebba4 On 26/04/2013 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp >> server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are >> considered viable. I did see the >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization. >> Our services are quite time sensitive. > > I think the classic method is to use net-misc/ntp > > See the extensive article at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/NTP for > great examples and description. > Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-) I notice that no-one has yet mentioned that Windows does not do ntp, as Windows does not do time right, doesn't do timezones right and I strongly suspect can't even do dates right (this latter still unproven) Windows time servers need some magic Microsoft thing called ENTP which is in no way related to the ntp we all know and love -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com