syncronizing clocks on workstations

[R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D.]

In article <988 at sunpix.East.Sun.COM>, jlf at galaxy.East.Sun.COM (John "Do The Bartman" Furlani) writes:
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>Hands down, then best way to synchronize clocks over a network is to use
>NTP (Network Time Protocol).

Yes, but (at least at our site) this does not eliminate the need for
something like a cron entry for rdate, as if the slave and master clocks
get too far out of synch., ntp fails to synchronize them...

Cheerio, Rick Rodgers

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