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Chapter 14. Keeping Time
- Table of Contents
- 14.1. The concept of localtime
- 14.2. The hardware and software clocks
- 14.3. Showing and setting time
- 14.4. When the clock is wrong
- 14.5. NTP - Network Time Protocol
- 14.6. Basic NTP configuration
- 14.7. NTP Toolkit
- 14.8. Some known NTP servers
- 14.9. NTP Links
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime double so." (Douglas Adams.)
This chapter explains how a Linux system keeps time, and what you need to do to avoid causing trouble. Usually, you don't need to do anything about time, but it is good to understand it.