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Manually specify desired timeserver
Authored by: ekc on Wed, Apr 2 2008 at 9:06AM PDT

brett_x wrote:

You can use an internal ntp server while in the office...

How do you go about setting this up? I would love to have one Mac serving time to all the others, and everything I have read about ntpd suggests that this should be easy enough to configure, but I have never managed to get it to work. Ah well...

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Authored by: leamanc on Wed, Apr 2 2008 at 9:57AM PDT

Don't know about OS X, but ntpd is dead simple to set up on Linux. Just find an old box, install a simple distribution on it and enjoy your local time server. We do that at my work and, while it doesn't save us a ton of bandwidth, any little bit helps.

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Authored by: ekc on Wed, Apr 2 2008 at 1:03PM PDT

Hey, I just realized they finally fixed the problem in Leopard! I can now sync all the computers in the office to one running Leopard. Hmm...this might deserve a hint of its own...