Setting time the right way, the Linux way

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Oct 3, 2007 7:22 PM EDT
Linux Watch; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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"Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?" It's a fine song lyric for Chicago, but when it comes to computers, the answer is, "Yes, we really care. We, really, really care that our all are computers' servers logs, e-mail date and time stamps, and our backups agree on the date and time." How do you do that, though? The usual answer on SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) networks is to have each PC call in over the Internet to a NTP (Network Time Protocol) server. That's fine, but it does waste a few bits of network bandwidth and with any modern Linux you can set up your own personal NTP server for your PCs.

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Accurate time is important beirwin 0 819 Oct 4, 2007 1:47 PM

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