[lug] Two time-related questions

[Calvin Dodge]

Mike McCallister wrote:
> 
> 1) Is there any way for the KDE 1.2 clock to display seconds and/or is there
> another clock tool that will? I have a third-party toolbar in Windows that has

I dunno, but KDE 2.0's clock WILL display seconds.

Or you could run gkrellm, which does the same thing (as well as presenting a
cool "das blinkenlights" display of system stats).

> 2) Here I'm feeling really dumb, but I suspect somebody here knows what app
> (or process) to use to synch my clock with NIST's. I've connected to the FTP
> site, but I'm guessing all those .exes are for Windows. What do I do here?

ntpdate servername

(like "ntpdate time-nw.nist.gov")

You can set up xntp to do this automatically, but ntpdate works fine for me.

Calvin

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