# Managing Accurate Date and Time

### Avi Alkalay

Brad Knowles - Suggestion to use pool.ntp.org and NTP's stratum 2 public time servers

Kent Borg - Suggestion to use ntpq instead of ntpdc

Yura Moron - Good explanations on ntpq and ntpdc info

Takeo Nakano -

SHAKI -

Mihaly Gyulai -

Philippe Wautelet -

Kemal Ökmen -

Copyright © 2002,2003,2004,2005 Avi Alkalay

2005-11-18

Revision History
Revision 2005-11-18 | 18 Nov 2005 | Revised by: Avi
Included link to turkish translation
Revision 2005-10-12 | 12 Oct 2005 | Revised by: Avi
The Brazil zic file is now external and updated
Revision 2005-05-03 | 03 May 2005 | Revised by: Avi
Included link to french translation
Revision 1.0.8 | 2004-10-29 | Revised by: Mihaly Gyulai
Hungarian translation, the chorny section and the very first section
Revision 1.0.7 | 9 Jul 2004 | Revised by: avi
Disclaimer near to license, to let people know they can translate without asking permission.Small fixes in some phrases.
Revision 1.0.6 | 25 Feb 2004 | Revised by: avi
Included credits and link to russian translation.
Revision 1.0.5 | 05 Jul 2003 | Revised by: avi
Changed public time servers list URL. Added pool.ntp.org.
Revision 1.0.4 | 21 Dec 2002 | Revised by: avi
Added japanese translation link and credits.
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

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