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Old 10-03-2011
NTP client offset
How to add offset to NTP client so that, for eg., clock is -20 seconds?
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Old 10-03-2011
You can't. NTP was created specifically to avoid this. The only way would be to use a tool like ntpdate to set the time from a timeserver, and then use date to set the offset.
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Old 10-03-2011
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Originally Posted by pludi
You can't. NTP was created specifically to avoid this. The only way would be to use a tool like ntpdate to set the time from a timeserver, and then use date to set the offset.
ahhh, damn.
is there perhaps a way to set time offset for a particular process?
thanks.
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