Re: after ids

From: "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:34:30 -0700 (PDT)

Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

What has ntpdate got to do with the issue of system-time not
always passing uniformly (beyond being one possible cause of
it)?

If you're running ntpdate, system time will always be close to real
time (which I think we can assume passes uniformly for the sake of
this discussion) and you'll never have the problem. QED.

Donal.
.

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