Dune Parody skit. Was RE: whitewigs

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Tue Mar 22 16:02:38 CST 2005


Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Tue, March 22, 2005 1:47 pm, D. Hageman said:
> 
> 
>>It seems that someone hasn't discovered ntp ...
> 
> 
> Ntp doesn't guarantee correct time, it's just another way to screw it up.
> (Like gentoo overwriting the config with garbage by default.)

It _does_ guarantee that you have the same time as a server or a set of
peers, within a given tolerance.  This is helpful if you want to
correlate log data on different hosts, or run "make" in an NFS-mounted
directory.



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