Re: Losing time

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Date:         Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:16:25 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

Praveen,

Yes it is "normal"

I don't do windows, but it seems to happen there too.

I strongly recommend setting up ntp between these boxes. You don't even have to sync to a *real* clock outside of these if you don't
want to, (though I don't see any reason not to). You can use ntp to keep these systems synced in their own little world.

If you don't want to do ntp, I would suggest at least increasing the frequency that you manually sync them. Before there was ntp, we
use to just run a nightly cronjob that ran "setclock othersystem" or the like to keep license, DB, and NFS servers on the same page.

Hope that helps,

Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
DSE/TCO
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company

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Hi,

        We have a set of servers where we end up doing syncronization of
clocks every month as the time difference between these servers varies as
time passes by. I mean on day 1 if the difference between two servers is 2
seconds, on day 25 the difference between these 2 servers becomes 3 seconds.
We sync the time manually i.e. we dont use the time daemon or ntp etc. Is it
normal on all the systems or is it a problem only on our machines. Also the
same time drop happens on windows or not.

TIA
Praveen

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