in reply to Setting system time thru http headers

It depends on how accurate you want your system clock to be. Issues:

  1. On what time stratum is the server in question running?
  2. To what resolution is the timestamp on HTTP headers set by the server software?

If I were on a system where the ntp ports were blocked by the firewall (a rather strange thing to do), I would acquire a cheap GPS module via eBay and set up my own Stratum 1 time server. As a matter of fact, I am doing this anyway, despite the fact that I'm running at Stratum 3 quite happily here.

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Re^2: Setting system time thru http headers
by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 03, 2008 at 13:06 UTC
    Setting up your own time server seems more complex than anything else, although its very cool. I only need 1 or 2 seconds of accuracy. With these scripts all I need to do is add my username to the sudo list for date, and I can update my time as a user.

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