NTP Advice and Time Fun (Re: Dune Parody skit. Was RE: whitewigs)

[Jeremy Turner]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:36:32AM -0600, D. Hageman wrote:
> Some motherboards have a seriously bad system clock on them.

Yes very true.

Also I've noticed that the time will be very off if the BIOS battery is
dying and the machine is powered off.  I don't know if that's actually
true or something "the network is slow when it rains" type thing.

For your Googling pleasure:

http://www.beaglesoft.com/mainfaqclock.htm
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/l0806/45l06/45l06.asp

Jeremy