Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am exploring changing the way our remote openSUSE systems (not connected to the internet) maintain proper time. We have GPS devices in these system, but have thus far only used the time for our own devious purposes. We have never tried to maintain the system time. The popular wisdom on the gpsd list (all things related to GPS access on Linux) is that one should use chrony (http://chrony.tuxfamily.org) rather then NTP for this purpose. The reason given is that NTP does not deal well with a time source that is perhaps seldom available. See http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/FAQ.html#question_2.1
I guess it will depend quite a bit on on how you define "seldom" - as long as access to a time source is regular, e.g. daily, I think the local system will be able to keep the clock stable in between accesses. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org