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The System Clock Mini-HOWTO

R David Decker, rddecker@loblolly.net

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Time is Relative
• 1.2 Why keep accurate time?
• 1.3 Acknowledgements

2. Two Clocks on One System

• 2.1 The Hardware or Real Time Clock (RTC)
• 2.2 The System Clock
• 2.3 The Most Accurate Clocks
• 2.4 Getting the time with Telnet
• 2.5 Netdate Does it All
• 2.6 Updating with Cron