| From: | "Chad R(dot) Larson" <chad(at)eldocomp(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Aaron <aarmel(at)netagi(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Time slowly goes out of sync |
| Date: | 2002-08-30 04:28:00 |
| Message-ID: | 4.2.2.20020829212341.00ad9550@smtp.eldocomp.com |
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At 10:14 AM 8/29/02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Postgres just asks the OS what time it is. I think you have an off-speed
>system clock crystal (lots of PC-grade hardware will gain or lose 10
>minutes/month :-().
On the other hand, in a day of Network Time Protocol (NTP) there is
absolutely no excuse for a machine to have a date/time off by more than a
few milliseconds.
UNIX users probably already have an ntpd available on their system, if not
it's an easy download.
On my windows boxes I use "Dimension 4" http://www.thinkman.com/~thinkman
for a free sntp agent.
-crl
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Chad R. Larson (CRL22) chad(at)eldocomp(dot)com
Eldorado Computing, Inc. 602-604-3100
5353 North 16th Street, Suite 400
Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3228
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