Managing Accurate Date and Time

avi at unix.sh
avi at br.ibm.com

Senior IT and Software Architect :: Linux Market Developer
IBM Linux Impact Team :: ibm.com/linux

Kent Borg - Suggestion to use ntpq instead of ntpdc

Yura Moron - Good explanations on ntpq and ntpdc info

1.0.3 :: 2002-08-24

Revision History
Revision 1.0.3	24 Aug 2002	Revised by: avi
Fixed wrong screen and programlisting widths.
Revision 1.0.2	04 Aug 2002	Revised by: avi
Link to public time servers page.
Revision 1.0.1	07 May 2002	Revised by: avi
Final XML conversion. Files reorganization.
Revision 1.0	28 Apr 2002	Revised by: avi
Finalized image.
Revision 0.8	27 Apr 2002	Revised by: avi
Switched from ntpdc example to ntpq, based on contributions.
Revision 0.8.1	20 Apr 2002	Revised by: avi
Improved graphic. Links to other doc locations.
Revision 0.8	14 Apr 2002	Revised by: avi
Beter tunning of NTP graphic.
Revision 0.76	13 Apr 2002	Revised by: avi
Inclusion of architecture graphic.
Revision 0.75	10 Apr 2002	Revised by: avi
Spell checked. Using DocBook XSLT 1.50.
Revision 0.65	31 Mar 2002	Revised by: avi
Upgraded to XML 4.1.2 DocBook format
Revision 0.6	29 Mar 2002	Revised by: avi
Finished timezone mechanism on Linux. Created appendix. Now only drawings are needed.
Revision 0.4	24 Mar 2002	Revised by: avi
All skeleton defined. All command examples written.
Revision 0.2	19 Mar 2002	Revised by: avi
First DocBook version

Table of Contents

1. Computer Global Date and Time Concept