Re: [Marxism] setting correct date and time

[Jon Flanders <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's a very cool program for Linux called Netdate that you can run
from the command line to automatically set your date and time from
government servers.

I don't know if there is a Windows equivalent, but there might be.

Here's the output from my computer when it runs. It checks five
different sites.

As you can see, my system was running a few seconds slow.

Jon Flanders

[root@localhost jon]# setdate
The current System date and time is
Sun Jul 10 15:49:13 EDT 2005
the CMOS/Hardware clock date/time is
Sun 10 Jul 2005 03:49:14 PM EDT  -0.713454 seconds
129.6.15.28 -48.173      Sun Jul 10 15:48:26.000
132.163.4.102 -47.237    Sun Jul 10 15:48:27.000
131.107.1.10 -47.362     Sun Jul 10 15:48:27.000
207.200.81.113 -47.462   Sun Jul 10 15:48:27.000
129.6.15.28 -47.492      Sun Jul 10 15:48:27.000
The System and CMOS/Hardware clock date/time will be set to:
Sun Jul 10 15:48:27 EDT 2005
[root@localhost jon]#




On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:20 -0400, Les Schaffer wrote:
> In the last week there have been three people who have sent emails to
> the list with the date of origin off by one month. kind of an unusual
> coincidence.
>
> but anway, the problem is that marxmail can be a pretty high volume
> email list, and if comrades are sorting messages by Date (and it's your
> system Date that is used for sorting) and you are off by a month, your
> post goes way up high (way down low) in the list of incoming messages
> and you will be lucky if others see it in a timely fashion.
>
> so lets all make like the good socialist Einstein and SYNCHRONIZE
> CLOCKS. Today is Sunday, July 10, 2005, 2:11 PM if you live in the
> Eastern Daylight Time timezone, adjust accordingly. for Windows users,
> click on Start Menu --> Control Panel --> Date and Time and adjust.
>
>   world time and date:
>   http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
>   http://www.worldtimezone.com/
>
>   imperial time (god forbid they should cover the whole world):
>   http://nist.time.gov/
>
>
>
> Les Schaffer
>
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