On 2014-06-28 22:32, John Andersen wrote:
You don't need a Canadian one, even the North American pool NTP sources work fine you set your timezone. (And its generally frowned upon to point all your machines at the either Research Canada or NIST, because of server load. That is what pool NTP servers are for, and also most universities have NTP servers synced to the national servers.
True. I have it like this: server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org server 3.pool.ntp.org which works fine. Or, you can use: server 0.ca.pool.ntp.org server 1.ca.pool.ntp.org server 2.ca.pool.ntp.org server 3.ca.pool.ntp.org which gives you Canadian servers. Or, you use a combination, like 4 Canadian servers, and 4 international servers. Don't worry, the ntp daemon is clever enough to find out on the list which are the best ones, and which to discard. In my case, the command: Telcontar:~ # rcntp ntptimeset 28 Jun 22:43:41 sntp[7729]: Started sntp 2014-06-28 22:43:41.419620 (-0100) -0.000659 +/- 0.120956 secs Time synchronized with AmonLanc.valinor Telcontar:~ # says that the best current one now is a local network machine, that runs 24*7. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)