From: John McCormac (jmcc at domain hackwatch.com)
Date: Sat 12 Feb 2000 - 01:04:55 GMT
Colin Whittaker wrote:
>
> John McCormac stated the following on Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 12:44:22AM +0000 :
> > of the boxes here suffer from clock drift so I have a tcl script on a
> > cron job synching a box with net time. I was using the Perl script from
> > Linux journal (which works well) but a few seconds with tcl produced a
> > script that did the same thing:
>
> Is that not what either ntpd or ntpdate are for?
True but hacking about with tcl is fun. I know - I should get out of the
office more. :-) The other useful thing is that the same tcl script can
be subtly modified to work on Windows. It's not bare metal programming
but the buzz is close.
Regards...jmcc
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