Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
>         I'm still learning linux. Its only been a bit over 8 months. Being up
> for essentially as long as you want it to be up is a problem in that the
> clock drifts. I know ... such problems to have.
> 
>         Create a file with this line and put it in your cron.hourly directory
> presuming full time network connect. Manual execution as root or
> whatever else. Of course make it +xxx.
> 
> rtime -s tock.usno.navy.mil
> 
>         It corrects you to US Naval observatory time. It sets to half the
> transit time but you might want to pick a time source closer to home.

... or install and configure [x]ntpd.

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Francois Dispot wrote:
> 
> Matt Giwer wrote:
> >
> >         I'm still learning linux. Its only been a bit over 8 months. Being up
> > for essentially as long as you want it to be up is a problem in that the
> > clock drifts. I know ... such problems to have.
> >
> >         Create a file with this line and put it in your cron.hourly directory
> > presuming full time network connect. Manual execution as root or
> > whatever else. Of course make it +xxx.
> >
> > rtime -s tock.usno.navy.mil
> >
> >         It corrects you to US Naval observatory time. It sets to half the
> > transit time but you might want to pick a time source closer to home.
> 
> ... or install and configure [x]ntpd.

	No man page for either on Redhat 6.2. rtime came with. 

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 05:16:21 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote:
>Francois Dispot wrote:
>> 
>> Matt Giwer wrote:
>> >
>> >         I'm still learning linux. Its only been a bit over 8 months. Being up
>> > for essentially as long as you want it to be up is a problem in that the
>> > clock drifts. I know ... such problems to have.
>> >
>> >         Create a file with this line and put it in your cron.hourly directory
>> > presuming full time network connect. Manual execution as root or
>> > whatever else. Of course make it +xxx.
>> >
>> > rtime -s tock.usno.navy.mil
>> >
>> >         It corrects you to US Naval observatory time. It sets to half the
>> > transit time but you might want to pick a time source closer to home.
>> 
>> ... or install and configure [x]ntpd.
>
>	No man page for either on Redhat 6.2. rtime came with. 

It's rdate not rtime.  The full man page below:

RDATE(1)                     Red Hat                     RDATE(1)

NAME
       rdate - get the time via the network

SYNOPSIS
       rdate [-p] [-s] [host...]

DESCRIPTION
       rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network,
printing
       the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

   OPTIONS
       -p     Print the time returned by the remote machine.

       -s     Set the system time to the returned time.

HISTORY
       2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <sop### [at] redhatcom>
              Wrote it (previous incarnation  had  license  problems,  all
200
              lines of it).

Utilities                 February 2000                         1

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Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
> Francois Dispot wrote:
> >
> > Matt Giwer wrote:
> > >
> > >         I'm still learning linux. Its only been a bit over 8 months. Being up
> > > for essentially as long as you want it to be up is a problem in that the
> > > clock drifts. I know ... such problems to have.
> > >
> > >         Create a file with this line and put it in your cron.hourly directory
> > > presuming full time network connect. Manual execution as root or
> > > whatever else. Of course make it +xxx.
> > >
> > > rtime -s tock.usno.navy.mil
> > >
> > >         It corrects you to US Naval observatory time. It sets to half the
> > > transit time but you might want to pick a time source closer to home.
> >
> > ... or install and configure [x]ntpd.
> 
>         No man page for either on Redhat 6.2. rtime came with.

Most modern packages don't come with a man page (which imho is a shame).
Look in your /usr/doc directory.

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