Managing Accurate Date and Time

Avi Alkalay

Brad Knowles - Suggestion to use pool.ntp.org and NTP's stratum 2 public time servers

Kent Borg - Suggestion to use ntpq instead of ntpdc

Yura Moron - Good explanations on ntpq and ntpdc info

Takeo Nakano -

SHAKI -

Mihaly Gyulai -

Philippe Wautelet -

Kemal Ökmen -

Copyright © 2002,2003,2004,2005 Avi Alkalay

2005-11-18

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Revision 2005-11-1818 Nov 2005Revised by: Avi
Included link to turkish translation
Revision 2005-10-1212 Oct 2005Revised by: Avi
The Brazil zic file is now external and updated
Revision 2005-05-0303 May 2005Revised by: Avi
Included link to french translation
Revision 1.0.82004-10-29Revised by: Mihaly Gyulai
Hungarian translation, the chorny section and the very first section
Revision 1.0.79 Jul 2004Revised by: avi
Disclaimer near to license, to let people know they can translate without asking permission.Small fixes in some phrases.
Revision 1.0.625 Feb 2004Revised by: avi
Included credits and link to russian translation.
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Changed public time servers list URL. Added pool.ntp.org.
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Added japanese translation link and credits.
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Final XML conversion. Files reorganization.
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Switched from ntpdc example to ntpq, based on contributions.
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Improved graphic. Links to other doc locations.
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Beter tunning of NTP graphic.
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Finished timezone mechanism on Linux. Created appendix. Now only drawings are needed.
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All skeleton defined. All command examples written.
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First DocBook version
Table of Contents
1. Why do We Need a Precise Clock?
1.1. On What Factors Does the Hardware-Clock Depend?
2. Computer Global Date and Time Concept
3. What are Time Zones?
3.1. Daylight Savings Time
3.2. Time Zones Examples
3.3. Time Zone Mechanism on Linux
4. The Correct Settings for Your Linux Box
4.1. Setting Time Zone
4.2. Setting the Hardware Clock
5. Accurate Global Time Synchronization
5.1. NTP: The Network Time Protocol
5.2. Building a Simple Time Synchronization Architecture
5.3. NTP Configurations
5.4. Watching Your Box Synchronizing
5.5. Configure to Automatically Run NTP at Boot
6. Precise Time with the chrony Program
6.1. How chrony Differs from the ntp Suite?
6.2. How to Use chrony?
A. About this Document
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