[lug] Time (again) sanity check

[Gary Hodges]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Gary Hodges wrote:
>> I had to postpone my search for a WWVB or GPS time solution, but as 
>> luck would have it the folks running the time server (the one with 
>> incorrect time) said they would fix it.  They now claim it has the 
>> correct time, but I can't seem to set my computer time correctly with it.
> 
>> hodges at machine:~$ ntpq -p
>>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
>>  jitter
>> ============================================================================== 
>>
>>  mach.nv.doe.go 151.61.251.233   2 u   26   64    5    6.862    0.174 
>> 11.644
> 
> This tells you that you're synced.  In other words your time is set 
> correctly.
> 
> Why are you worried about this?  Sure, I'm anal and a minute plus would 
> drive me nuts for a machine on the Internet.  But usually I'd care much 
> more that all the machines had the same time (for log comparisons and 
> such) than that they were all just so.  Of course that should be trivial 
> with ntp.

I'm logging atmospheric data with the computer.  A couple seconds and I 
don't care.  A minute?  That's way too much.