From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:53:07 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] synchronization of time, setting time Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f6a20ba-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello everyone, 1) If I want to set the hardware (on-board) clock by hand, how can I? 2) If I want to synchronize the hardware time with a ntp server (once / periodically), how can I? 3) If I run the 'timesync -n [ntp server]' command, how is the frequency of synchronization determined? If I run it without any more special parameters, it seems to synchronize every minute (from the log, obtained with -l). That is, I think, unnecessarily too often. Thanks Ruda